>>I will be downloading patient photos from a digital camera to put into our VFP database app and I have a couple of questions...
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>>1) Is any file format (BMP, GIF, JPG...) that is better than another for use with VFP tables and forms?
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>>2) Does anyone know the file specification for creating any of the above file formats? (The camera has its own picture format, so I must convert it once the bytes are downloaded).
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>>Thanks.
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>I think JPG is the most appropriate, note that future VFP versions will probably handle it directly. So far, you can use any of imaging OCXs (JPG is the most common format and supported by any one). BMP format is also common, but file size is 20 times more than JPG, so you can easily get into diskspace problems.

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Thanks.

I have written a program to download the image from the camera, but perhaps this is the wrong route (too low level). Do you know of any shareware OCX's (I think that is what they are called) that allow the tranfer of images from twain compliant products (KODAK DC25 in this case)?