Message-Id: <mailto:199408241618.LAA01848@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 10:39:11 EDT From: Irina Gribovsky <mailto:IGribovsky@IDRC.CA> Subject: Re: Image access, large images, and the HP transparency adapter To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
David Johnson writes:>...I found MS Access to be unsatisfactory due to its inability to link to
>pictures other than bitmaps. (The images were saved as JPEGS to conserve
>file space).
Since the slide library I work at uses Access, and this is the first time anyone else has ever mentioned it in regard to image databases, I couldn't help but be curious.
We at the IDRC (International Developmetn Research Centre) use Picture Publisher for the imaging process; we have it set to save images as JPEG files (NOT bitmaps (.BMP extension), largely because of disk space constraints).
Picture Publisher is used together with MS Access, which serves as the database program, providing user access (pardon the pun) to these images.
The link works perfectly well between these two programs, despite the fact that the images are saved as .JPG and not .BMP files. Each record contains thumbnail-sized versions of all the images in that record (a maximum of 16; an average of 2), which, when double-clicked, bring the user into Picture Publisher and a full-screen version of that image.
If anyone has any further questions, please don't hesitate to answer me:
Irina Gribovsky mailto:igribovsky@idrc.ca
International Development Research Centre Slides & A/V Centre Library 250 Albert, 9th floor Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 236-6163 ext. 2063