[V4MD, V.NET] Pictures again

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 2/19/04 2:53 PM, Marcus Bointon at marcus at synchromedia.co.uk wrote:

>> 5) I think only correct way for you -- insert pictures using Director
>> itself. Director will open JPG or PNG, convert them on open to BITMAP,
>> Give BITMAP to Valentina, Valentina compress them to JPG in the picture
>> field.
>> 
>> I think this is the only way if you want images in db.
> 
> OK, I may have to take that approach. Did I hear someone say that if you set
> quality to 100 then the picture field is lossless?

More correctly say, it is of better quality

    JPG by its nature compress with quality loose

> The colours in the PNGs
> are being used for selections by colour index that gets looked up in the DB,
> so they have to be completely lossless - any JPEG compression artefacts will
> make it go completely nuts.

Then you need store your PNG into SetMedia()



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