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HAVING A PROBLEM DOWNLOADING A DRAWING?
NEED DRAWINGS ON A SPECIAL TOPIC THAT YOU CAN'T FIND? Click here to make special topic Requests and Crisis requests.

NOTE: after you get the drawing you want... LET THE REST OF US KNOW so we can relax.
TO LOCATE A DRAWING BY ITS NUMBER... see below
TO IDENTIFY THE ARTIST BY THE ARTIST CODES... click here
TO GATHER YOUR POTENTIAL DOWNLOADS (and print them out on one sheet of paper for selection purposes. Click here.
TO CONTACT NewsArt ARTISTS... click here.

When all you have is the drawing's number:

1. Select artist:

2. Select File Type: (if one fails, try the other)

3. Drawing Number: (Drawing number only, don't include the artist's code.) ALTERNATE METHOD (in case the above doesn't work for you):
Go to www.newsart.com/XX/images/DRAWING (substituting the correct artist code for the "xx") and the drawing filename for DRAWING. For example, to find m999, go to www.newsart/m/images/m999.gif

ARTIST CODES
m - Barrie Maguire
jo - John Overmyer
jm - Jim Meehan

ve - Chris Van Es
px - Pedro Molina
sa - Steve Ansul

HAVING A PROBLEM DOWNLOADING A DRAWING?



Two "common" problems are:
- The wrong drawing arrives -- Assuming you didn't mis-type the drawing number, the problem usually is because the small screen image has an incorrect caption number. Go back to the screen image and right-click on it and select Properties from the drop down menu. This will tell you the name of the file, which will be the correct number of the drawing, i.e. m1234.jpg is drawing # m1234. (Please send an email to the artist so they can correct the caption.)

- The drawing is corrupted* in some way, maybe it is coarsely pixelated, or it won't load into your page layout. If this happens contact the artist directly. If the artist does not respond, contact Barrie Maguire. Someone can email a acceptable drawing to you.
* Sometimes, if you have requested the drawing be converted from a tiff to a jpeg, try downloading again and NOT converting the drawing.
- In Mac, a window opens, the Quick Time logo appears briefly, the image appears within the window but there is no way to grab the image file: This maddening occurrence happens with some MS Windows operating systems (2000, for example). Quick Time insists on opening all tiff files in that manner. With the browser window selected, save the webpage (Cntl-S, or Command-S) and you will be able to save the image to your desktop.

If all else fails... contact the artist whose drawing you are have difficulty with... If he or she is not there... contact Barrie Maguire.