>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>I need to include in a report (purchase order) a picture of the manager's signature. What should work better in a VFP report for this purpose: BMP or JPG file?
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>>>>Can you use PNG? I think choosing between the two JPG is better.
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>>>What makes PNG better than BMP and/or JPG?
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>>PNG is usually smaller. JPG is also smaller than BMP.
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>I think so quality is the most important thing. I'm sure their HDD enough big for just a small signature bmp file.

I'm not sure it's just a one signature per person. From what I got, it's a signature captured from a device - which can mean dozens of signatures every day. On a signature, every pixel but the ink should be white... the sheer amount of 0x00ffffff byte pairs that need to stored for each white pixel is just a waste of space.

For this case, I'd rather go with gif - no loss, no need for a rich color palette, and small files which won't ask too much from the system (even at display time).