Re: IMAGELIB Digest - 7 Feb 2001 to 8 Feb 2001 (#2001-18)

From: John Weise (jweise@UMICH.EDU)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 08:04:56 CST

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Date:         Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:04:56 -0500
From: John Weise <mailto:jweise@UMICH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: IMAGELIB Digest - 7 Feb 2001 to 8 Feb 2001 (#2001-18)
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    <pre> Paul,

    I don't think FileMaker is going to be able to do what you want it to here. Generally, better quality can be achieved by generating thumbnail images outside of FileMaker with an image processing program (e.g., Photoshop, DeBabelizer, ImageMagick, Graphic Converter). FileMaker is only doing a quick and dirty job of scaling your images down. Once you've made thumbnail files, you'll need another FileMaker container field to hold them, and you'll need to import them all. I generally don't store image files within FileMaker. Sometimes I include just thumbs. Other programs
    (e.g., Cumulus) have better functionality for including and managing image files. FileMaker is stronger with the descriptive data I think. Of course it depends on what your up to.

    ---- John

    John Weise Coordinator of Image Services Digital Library Production Service University of Michigan http://images.umdl.umich.edu/

    On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Automatic digest processor wrote:

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    > 1. filemaker- pro image distortion?
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    > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:16:11 +1300
    > From: Paul <mailto:Paul.Hillier@VUW.AC.NZ>
    > Subject: filemaker- pro image distortion?
    >
    > Hi All
    >
    > We have created a image data base using Filemaker Pro 4 and are having
    > problems with the image quality of our thumbnails.
    >
    > We have a image in a container field and have a small view in a general
    > list layout, with several records displayed, which we can then click on
    > to take us to the full size view of individual records.
    >
    > The problem we are experiencing is that the images in the small view
    > have lines appearing randomly through the image. It appears that the
    > shape of the box has an effect on it as well, i.e. a square box with a
    > rectangle image or a rectangle box with a square images seems to be the
    > worst. We have selected enlarge or reduce to fit the box selected and
    > the original images are approximately 1024 x 667 pixels and range from
    > 550k to 1.2 megs each.
    >
    > Has anybody else encountered this problem as is there a solution.
    >
    > THanks Paul
    >
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