Difference between revisions of "Help:About/archive/2005-06-03 Letter to Liquid Blue"
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| − | + | The following letter was sent to [[Liquid Blue]] (via email, attached as a Word document) in response to their new image policy. As of this writing, I have received no response from them. | |
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| + | At this point, then, I have to assume I do not have permission to use the images posted on their web site, and we certainly do not have access to the alternative FTP site, so I now have the following options for obtaining images of new items: | ||
| + | *purchase samples and photograph them (expensive, and sometimes actual items are not available right away) | ||
| + | *scan images from catalogs (low-resolution, and sometimes obscured by text and other markings) | ||
| + | *ignore the implicit warning not to use the web site images and wait for an explicit warning (if they decide to be draconian about it, they can terminate our business relationship with no warning at all) | ||
| + | *instead of providing an image on our site, provide a link to Liquid Blue's retail page displaying the item | ||
| + | *instead of providing an image on our site, use Liquid Blue's images directly, with "height=" tags to scale them to our needs (HTML scaling is generally of poor quality, this prevents us from cropping the images for use in thumbnails, and Liquid Blue probably would not see a difference between serving the images off their site and copying them to our site). | ||
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| + | Suggestions on this issue are welcome. | ||
==Letter== | ==Letter== | ||
