photo manipulation in Studio 6.1 and/or Postgres

[Jim Pistrang]

Hi all,

Thought I'd follow up - I've purchased Kelly's ImageMagicker external, which will allow me to do the following:

1) Write a one-time Omnis routine to loop through and reduce the size of all too-large images currently in the database.

2) Automatically reduce the size of too-large images before they are inserted to the database.

Jim

>Hi all,
>
>I'm storing some photos as binary data in a Postgres database.  The
>column is defined as a PICTURE in the Omnis schema, and the user inserts/
>updates by pasting a photo into a picture field (kPictureObject) in an
>Omnis window.  I can check the size of the pasted picture with the
>binlength() function and not do an insert or update if the image is too large.
>
>My immediate problem:  I haven't been checking the size up till now, and
>there are about 500 photos already in the database that are really big
>(8mb or so).  Is there a way in Omnis (or with some other tool) that I
>can fetch an image, reduce its size, and then update postgres?
>
>Thanks from snowy New England,
>
>Jim
>
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