Lee,
WE use the placing thumbnails method... I've been filing photo shoots
in Filemaker since 1992. I have over 13000 records that relate to
thousands and thousands of images. I use the Troi FilePlugin for most
of my work. The high-res images are stored on an image server, and we
place thumbnails into a container field, not as reference. If you
take your original high-res images and run a batch in photoshop to
knock them all down to 72 dpi low res, then place those images in the
database, it will run quickly. When you look up the file, the
thumbnail will be displayed in the container, and if you need the
high-res, you can download that from the server to where ever you
need it on the local drive. Works well. In FMPro 9, you can also use
the webviewer to display the images on the server without placing
them in a container at all. The only drawback to FMPro in that
instance is that it will not automatically resize the image to fit
the display size, so if you have a high-res image and a 5 x 5
webviewer window, you'll only see a fraction of the image, but you
will have scroll bars to move around in it. The work around for this
is to either use SuperContainer, which will resize on the fly, or
again batch thumbnails to the size you want them in Photoshop, store
the thumbnails and high-res on the server and point the webviewer at
the thumbnails.
Hope that helps some more.
Rick
On Oct 1, 2008, at 6:00 PM, FMPRO-L automatic digest system wrote:
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:42:46 -0400
From: David McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: large photo file
It looks like another solution will be required so I'll have a look
at the suggestions offered such as 360 works(Supercontainer) as i
tried using reference only and it took 16 secs to bring up a 20MB pic
You might want to look at the use of thumbnails initially and only
pull the real thing if necessary. You may need this approach no
matter what you do in that 20 Mb does not load that fast.
Dave
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