Re: Tip - small HQ thumbnails for db using PrintKey v5.05.
- From: "Remi-Noel Menegaux" <rnmenegaux@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:20:06 +0200
Your system, while working, is not the usually recommended way to deal
with images in FileMaker.
The idea is to keep all images - one image being one file eg
'photo1.jpg' - in a separate folder, and to put into the multimedia
field of FMP record only its 'reference', ie its path to the former
folder. When 'importing' the image, there is a little dot to tick saying
something like 'import the reference only'. Then the increase in size of
the FMP file is minimal, even with multi thousand (references to)
images.
To assist you if you have to automate that process for thousands of
images you may consider to use the excellent plugin 'Troi File' that
comes with good examples and which is available ($$$) at www.troi.com. I
use it a lot for a museum of my clients.
Remi-Noel
"Cerulean" <Spamming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> For a couple of years I've had troubles with the size of my movie
> collection solution because of the size of the thumbnails I was using.
>
> When I wrote the db, I began collecting those small graphics you can
> find on online stores for VHS tapes. Of course, DVD covers now
> available also.
>
> I used an "insert picture" option in the main input screen of my db
> and I dumped each thumbnail into that. The trouble is that each
> record increased the solution by 25-90 or more kb. Doesn't sound like
> much but after a few hundred entries can make the db rather large at
> several megs.
>
> I ran each small thumbnail through my freeware print screen program
> yesterday, PrintKey v5.05, as it has one of the best algorithms for
> GIFs that I've ever seen. I copied each image to the clipboard then
> loaded it into PrintKey and re-saved but this time as a GIF. It
> produces the smallest yet best quality GIFs of anything I have, even
> Paint Shop Pro! Small size, no discernible quality loss to the eye
> and no washed out colour or colour distortions as seems to happen with
> a lot of other methods of saving GIFs. Each thumbnail was reduced at
> least 1/3 of its original size and a a few up to even as much as
> 1/10th! The folder where I kept the original collection of the loose
> graphics went from a little 2 megs or so down to 631 kb, and I've even
> added several GIFs to that folder so it was under that figure!
>
> So just wanted to share this tip. I'm not knowledgeable enough in FMP
> to do much sharing of FMP info, but thought this might be of use to
> others.
>
> btw, though v5.10 of PrintKey seems to still be readily found on the
> net, I've never been able to locate v5.05 which was given to me at a
> job in 1998 and I've carried around to all my contracts since then on
> a floppy. It's one app I can't live without. I find I don't like
> v5.10 at all and that 5.05 is much better, but there is that option as
> well to just + dl 5.10. Both are freeware and are standalone apps
> with no install.
>
> If anyone is interested in v5.05, though, let me know. I can post it
> to alt.binaries.freeware or something. Or, if anyone knows of a
> binaries filemaker newsgroup, perhaps I could post to that. Whatever
> is best and easiest if anyone is interested, of course.
>
> Cheers!
>
.
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