[V4MD, V.NET] Pictures again

[Marcus Bointon]

Not quite the same old question!

I need to store pairs of images, one JPEG, one PNG in a Valentina DB.
The database is being created using the Valentina .NET component, but read
using V4MD. Because image data is written into blobs in the .NET app, it's
just raw data. The thing that's concerning me is that it's vital that the
PNGs are stored bit-perfect. JPEG seems to be less of a problem, other than
lack of a picture type in v.net, which is what's forcing us to use blobs.

It's more of a Director question really - am I safe setting member.image to
a blob I've read from the DB and trust that Director will be able to handle
the JPEG or PNG data correctly? If not, how should I go about it?

Or should I reimport all images inside Director (which I'm trying to avoid)?

And is there any difference in the actual JPEG image data stored in a
picture field vs a blob field (aside from the additional stuff that the
picture field type adds)?

Martin?

Marcus
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