How can I shrink a black and white photo (.pdf and 238 KB) sent unzipped by email?

I would take a screen shot of the image (which saves it as an image instead of .pdf) and upload the screen shot.

Alternately you could email it to me and I could do it for you.

You can open the PDF in GIMP (photo editing program like Photoshop but free and I believe open source) and manipulate it. Crop it, save it as a JPG maybe, scale it down, drop the resolution, whatever you need to do.

http://www.gimp.org/

Open it using Preview and Save As… to a JPEG.

How is the picture in black and white? You can’t hook up a USB cable to that kind of camera.

Well, blow me down. http://i45.tinypic.com/2q3qhl4.jpg

Thank you, everyone. Dave’s solution was the simplest and quickest. This is my grandfather at 84 with his “neice” in Munich in 1954. Note the pocket handkerchief. And note that no one in his huge family had ever met the “neice.”

@PupnTaco I just learned a valuable new trick- many thanks!

@all; Did it work? Can you see my dapper grandfather with his creased trousers and highly polished shoes?

I love old photographs! Thanks for sharing! Yes it worked.

@Saschin: PIc was found in an old box in the attic of one of my cousin’s. It was taken in 1954; he scanned and mailed it to me. Gramps was not very nice to my grandmother or their five kids. I was the first grandchild and a sassy little blond; he was wonderful to me.

@gailcalled What a fantastic picture. Thank you for sharing. His “niece” is quite lovely as I am sure he realized. (You are still a sassy little blond).

Wow, a “niece” at 84, pre-Viagra. Impressive.

For the record, his name is Benjamin Finkel. (A good gene pool, I say.)

Magnificent! I love old photographs!

As soon as I looked at the photo, dapper was the word that popped into my mind. The lady was quite attractive and stylish herself!

@rooeytoo: A pity she wasn’t a lady, and she certainly wasn’t my grandmother.

Awesome! I love old photos. I get lost looking at the little details.