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Saving JPG files
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From
24/09/2001 08:09:36
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
24/09/2001 07:56:49
Carla Silva
Http - Produtos Informaticos, Lda.
Odivelas, Portugal
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Pictures and Image processing
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00559892
Message ID:
00559894
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>Hi to all,
>
>I have a field of general type, when I import a file of type JPG, it saves only the name of the file, when I import a file of type BMP it saves the image.
>The command I use is "Append General from \12345.jpg"
>Is there another way to save JPG files ?
>
>Thanks,

Carla,

I think you should seriously consider keeping JPGs as separate files. Example, of a test I did: a JPG-image of one of our shoes costs 50 KB; importing to a general field cost more than 1 MB - a factor of 20! Now, multiply that by a thousand, or ten thousand, images...

HTH, Hilmar.
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