In Need of Help to Download a WW1 File From Archway COMPLETED

[smudwhisk]

Thanks Beg, that's resolved the problem I had with two Territorial Force files from archway.

[spades]

Hi Hettyhen,

Thanks for advising the Moderation Team that you consider this topic completed, but with your permission I'd like to leave it on top of the New Zealand Board for a while.

It provides valuable advice to those struggling to download WWI Army Personnel files from Archway.

Spades

[hettyhen]

Hello Spades,
That's fine with me, a good clear and easy to follow method to solve the problem. 
Cheers
HeatherR

[Beg Clonrode...]

I'd like to leave it on top of the New Zealand Board for a while.

Hi Spades...

In that case can I add the following really easy jp2 to jpg conversion method for Linux users...


1) Download each individual jp2 file to a folder, for example...

 \home\yourname\Archway

2) Open a terminal, normally alt+F2 then type the word terminal or the words gnome-terminal

3) Change to the above mentioned Archway folder...

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cd \home\yourname\Archway

4) Enter the following command...

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mogrify -format jpg *.jp2 

Job done :-)

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Mogrify is a part of the imagemagick package

You may need to install the imagemagick package from your repository. For example, if you Ubuntu...

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sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Regards
Beg

[smudwhisk]

Quite by chance I've found that Irfanview (which is free to download and install) will open .jp2 files and allows you to then do a save as jpg.

[spades]

Hi everyone,

It seems that the above issues opening Army personnel files have been resolved.
http://archway.archives.govt.nz/

I have done a few tests and all the random files I selected opened immediately.

Unless anyone is still having problems I'll close off this topic as completed.

Spades