Thank you Charlene! Yes I am a Mac user and that worked great exactly what I needed. Jackie
on 1/9/07 3:16 PM, Flora, Charlene at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jackie, > > This is for MAC using FM 5.5 and should do the same for PC. Click on field, > select all, copy; launch graphic program (preview, quicktime, photoshop), > select new file from copied image, paste and this should show the image. Do > a save as in Preview, must be pict, and choose suffixes that are offered for > Quicktime, Photoshop, or other graphic application. Be sure to check your dpi > and picture quality. > > Dragging images to the desktop creates a picture clipping when using MACs. I > tried doing this with an image in FM7 and it does not do a picture clipping. > However, FM7 will allow you to export field contents from the edit command as > a pict file, if you upgrade FileMaker in the future. > > Maybe someone else has more info to say here. > > > Charlene > > > > From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of J. > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Maintaining JPG or other format > > I have Filemaker 5.5 and would like to be able to maintain the JPG, PhotoShop > or other format of a picture that I put into a Container field, but > currently, when I drag or pull a picture out that I need to retrieve, it comes > out as a Picture Clipping. > > Am I inputting it wrong? Pulling it out wrong? > > Jackie >
