Apologies, techy help needed by utterly computer illiterate idiot
How do I set an Adobe pdf as my backdrop? If the control panel on my computer, which I've tried, is oddly uncooperative?

In the spirit of the thread, everyone who can't or won't help me is a cunt
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:38, 8 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Take a screenshot using Paint or something
Save out as a graphics file then set as backdrop

Cunt
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:39, Reply)

Yeah, I've saved it in Paint
but it keeps saying "you must save the file before you can set it as a backdrop".

I suspect my computer is the biggest cunt of all.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:43, Reply)

You should save the file.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:44, Reply)

What extension as?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:45, Reply)

I don't even understand these words in that combination

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:48, Reply)

When you took the screenshot into Paint and clicked the ickle disky picture
it asks you for a name and a File type. Now precious, can you remember:

a. Where you saved it?
b. What as? (.gif, .jpg, .bmp, .png?)
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Aha
It's saved on my desktop as a jpg
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Then you are sorted
You should be able to pick this as a background now
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:54, Reply)

If he can find his mouse.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:57, Reply)

mouse arse with both hands
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:57, Reply)

Every time I try to set it as a backdrop from Paint it gives me that rhetoric about saving it
Which I have. Repeatedly. Doesn't work via Picture and Fax viewer or Control Panel either.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:00, Reply)

There may be some kind of policy on your work PCs that prevents this
Can you choose any of the different standard backgrounds?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Nah
Plenty of my colleagues have different backdrops though, I might just need our tame IT bloke to perform some wizrdry on it.

*prepares sacrifice of NOMMY CAKE*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:04, Reply)

This will work
100%
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:05, Reply)

1: Open PDF
2: print PDF
3: stick pdf to screen
4: ??????
5: profit
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:39, Reply)

Or this

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

You what?
Backdrops are usually pictures not files. You need a PDF reader to read a PDF so you can't usually have one as a backdrop.
( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

As if I know the difference
You can't expect me to be clever AND pretty
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:41, Reply)

AND OR
( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:42, Reply)

Bitch please

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:43, Reply)

Unplug PC
Put back in box. You are too stupid to own one sorry.
( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:41, Reply)

Funny AND original

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:44, Reply)

I know you are etc

( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:47, Reply)

Have you considered a Mac?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:48, Reply)

with cheese?

( girlinthehole, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Right
Go to PC world
Ask them for the deluxe PC package with extra RAMS and an ultra fast monitor.
Pay technician to plug it in for you
And then pour a cup of coffee on it

Tahdah! All your PDF backdrop through control panel needs are solved
( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Needs MOAR Gadd

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:46, Reply)

Effort

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:47, Reply)

Alright
Pay me £2000 and I'll come over and set your pdf as a background
( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:47, Reply)

You know PC world charge £40 to get a virus off a laptop,
I did it for a mate for a crate of beer.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Didn't realise you could get porn in .pdf format

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:45, Reply)

Its like a flick (off) book

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:46, Reply)

Why do you want a PDF as a backdrop anyway?

Close paint
Open saved file in windows picture and fax viewer
Right click picture and select set as desktop background
buy Phil a pint, he likes beer
( Peej, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:46, Reply)

Picture of Ms Foxtrot from a photoshoot we did in London
I probably will buy you a pint for the effort - it's not working, but I suspect that's my work PC being gash, perhaps the person who sat here before me had some sickening picture of his missus as the backdrop and the access was removed as a result
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:50, Reply)

Email it to me and I'll send back a pic you can set

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

hahaha! that old chestnut.

( girlinthehole, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

I'm guessing it isn't THAT kind of pic!
Not as a PC background at work anyways
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:53, Reply)

I set a picture of my then girlfriend in an interesting position as my desktop at home once.
forgot all about it until I had some friends round.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:55, Reply)

haha!
They saw her in a hole new light?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:56, Reply)

Not so much....
it was actually only her face in shot, it was more what was in her mouth at the time...
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:57, Reply)

Was it cake?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:58, Reply)

yes, cake, that was it.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:58, Reply)

Surely they'd have assumed it was a toothpick?

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:59, Reply)

Or a hair?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:59, Reply)

doubt they saw much before I dived infront of the monitor
but yes, probably *sob*
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Right click, Properties
Save as SnackCock
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:03, Reply)

*breaks down in tears*

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:12, Reply)

As much as I like you Sporters,
No.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:54, Reply)

sheesh

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:55, Reply)

She'd kill me
It's not rude in any way, she just wouldn't want me sending it to anyone else
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Fair enough

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:02, Reply)

back a pic you can set it back sticky.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:54, Reply)

I thought this went without saying
Can you email sperm?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:56, Reply)

spunk, scan, email, simple.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:58, Reply)

1st class post wanksock

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:00, Reply)

PDF is a document, not a picture.
So setting a PDF as your desktop background wouldn't work, methinks.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 15:51, Reply)