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Scott Spanbauer

Bypass AOL's .art Images

Reader Denton banks of San Francisco wrote to say he always gets a .art extension when he tries to save a picture from the Internet in AOL. He wondered if there's any way to change .art files to JPEG or some other common format. Actually it's even easier than that. To speed downloads, AOL uses the proprietary .art compressed graphics format by default. The result, in addition to de-graded image quality, is that all images are converted from their original formats (such as BMP, GIF, or JPEG) to the AOL format. To disable this compression and receive the native-format images in AOL 8, click Settings, Preferences, Internet Settings, Web Graphics, Never compress graphics, and click OK.

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