Kudos to CHar for taking the trouble to make such excellent scans of those old magazine pages.I decided to save them for my computer based lightfoot collection but ran into an immediate problem.If you hover your mouse's cursor over each of the attached thumbnails a popup will reveal the filename that CHar gave each one
Thus the first one's logically includes (front) "cover" and moreover shows that it was in the compressed jpeg image format
the problem arose when having opened a thumb to its maximium size I tried to save it to my hard drive
then the saving dialog box shows that the bulletin board unhelpfully provides you with its default saving setting of untitled.png and the only and silly choice is between untitled .png or untitled.bmp
you can call me old fashioned or reactionary but personally I take a dim view of being dictated to in that way as I strongly prefer saving all images as jpegs rather than confuse myself later with pngs, and never ever as raw bitmaps thanks all the same
to do so therefore in this case I had to save each scan as the demanded untitled .png then open that in an image editing program (or the simple Microsoft Paint) then enter a more suitable filename and change the format to JPEG.Noting that I could not just simply save each full sized image directly as they would all stoopidly by default be named untitled.png and cleverly overwrite each other.
I therefore had to rename the saved files first and this is where I discovered that CHar simply cannot count. hover over the first four thumbs and you will find that Char has named them "front">"p1">"p2">"p4"!!!
Perhaps she is aware of the naughty connotation that Page 3 has in the UK!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_three_girl
then the next 3 on her part2 are "p5>"p6">"p7"
I only realised this after I had already logically and unwittingly named them in strict numerical order as front>p1>p2>p3>p4>p5>p6
it took much head scratching and double checking before I realised Char's set had no p3
Fortunately when I looked in the box of Lightfoot treasures bequeathed to me by Ron Jones a few years back I found as I hoped that it included the set of pages and could verify that despite the evidence to the contrary CHar's scans are a complete set with her page 1 actually being magazine page 14 , her page 2 is 15. her page 4 is 16 and the final three are pages 17,18 and 19
The magazine's contents are listed on page 3 and around a picture of Gord it says
PLAYING IT SAFE
PAGE 14
Gordon Lightfoot is one of the world's best -known singer/songwriters.Here's a rare look at what makes Gordie run- and what makes him stand still ByLarry LeBlanc
and that as Forrest Gump memoriably said is all I am going to say about that