From: noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com   
      
   On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:54:54 +0100, Bjorn Sagbakken wrote:   
      
   > Hi   
   >   
   > As Bertil has pointed out, Paradox 11 saves JPG files a bit strange. There   
   > is supposed to be some options to alter the compression rate or file size. I   
   > have tried this out myself, and as Bertil concluded, the JPG file does not   
   > change with the options. In fact, the compression is so heavy that the   
   > images are too much degraded. I have used outside Paradox s/w to manually   
   > convert Paradox - table images (bmp) to JPG's.   
   >   
   > Now, the question here is: Is there an addon to Paradox I can use to   
   > programmatically read images from Paradox tables and save them as JPG's in a   
   > way that I can decide the compression rate to keep the image quality?   
   >   
   > Bjorn   
      
   What Anders said; BMP is uncompressed and so does not degrade. The only   
   reason to store as JPEG would be to save disk space.   
      
   FWIW, most folk around here only store the path to the graphic file, and   
   use code to display the graphic in an undefined graphics object. This has   
   several advantages:   
   1. Graphics objects stored in tables are notoriously corruption-prone.   
   2. This saves all sorts of space.   
   3. You get to manage your graphics with graphics programs instead of a   
   database program with a few graphics commands.   
      
      
      
   Jim Hargan   
      
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