Force download of gif

Undo Optimizations May increase file size. Better for fixing buggy GIFs. Compression level. Applies lossy LZW compression. Drop Frames to reduce the file size? None Remove Duplicate Frames Drop every 2nd frame Drop every 3rd frame Drop every 4th frame Drop every 5th frame For certain types of GIFs, you maybe able to reduce file size further by dropping frames. Reduce colors? Number of colors? Reset All Options. Works in Windows The simple approach worked great.

It took me a bit to figure out I needed to paste the Giphy URL into a browser bar in order to edit it they way you describe before I copied and pasted it into my Shopify email marketing image upload section. Much appreciated. Thank you! Do you have advice on how to mangle either of the above style URLs into something Google Slides likes? Why does this website make it so fucking hard to just download a simple.

So helpful! Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Image files like jpg, png, gif etc. Archive files like zip, tar, gzip etc. Some file types show up in some browsers but not others depending on if the browser can read the file or not. For example, Internet Explorer IE will usually try to show Microsoft Word files doc and docx in the browser, while most other browsers will download it.

The key thing to understand is that some browsers maybe able to read a particular file type based on the addons you have installed for that browser while others may not be able to. If a browser can read the file type it will show it in the browser. If the browser cannot read a file type it will force a download to the hard disk.

Usually this is not an issue since the users can save the file to their computer after it is shown in the browser. Some users prefer that all the files should be forced downloaded no showing in the browser. There are a few things you can do to ensure that. Browsers cannot read zip file so it will force a download. Most computer users know to unzip the file and get the content from inside.

Option 2: Most browsers have a settings where it lets the users specify if they want to force download a certain type of files for example: a pdf file. You can instruct your users to use this option if you think it will help them again this is common knowledge and most internet users know this.

Option 3: You can add the following lines of code in your. If you are storing your files to your amazon S3 account instead of your server then do the following to force a download on those files.

Set the correct headers on your files in Amazon S3 in order to force the browser to download rather than opening the file. How to still allow for 'save as' that let's me enter a file name before saving? ArjunChiddarwar No, that opens up security vulnerabilities imagine someone saving a malicious file directly into your Windows folder.

The download path is based on the browser settings - for example by default Chrome will download to your downloads folder. Thanks for the heads up on the cross-origin stuff. Do you know if other browsers will be doing the same thing? I hate cross-origin. Show 1 more comment. I managed to get this working in Chrome and Firefox too by appending a link to the to document.

Roko C. Buljan k 32 32 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. DrowsySaturn DrowsySaturn 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. This is actually a very nice solution for web-apps where Javascript is all around the place. Works only in Google Chrome in my test setup , though. Great solution, thanks! Note that if you omit document. It's also good to remove created element with document. In iOS Safari, this produces a dialog asking whether you wish to view or save the image.

If you save, it goes into a mysterious place accessible only within iOS Safari I expected it to save to my Images app, details at macreports. On iOS Brave, it just opens the image. Show 3 more comments. URL window. Emerica Emerica 4, 2 2 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges.

This will not work if the requested image is blocked by CORS policy. Riley Bell Riley Bell 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. If so, it means that all metadata from image file is lost. Still, good to know. Thanks for sharing. Sadi Sadi 3 3 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges.

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