Preparing images for online viewing

[cuwet]

This one is easy.... but I don't know the answer. Anyone know how to best prepare images so browsing sites, that are being served by filemaker pro 6 server, is fast.

Correct me if I am wrong but if the image placed into the container field is a pict (mac) and not a jpg, filemaker will convert on the fly as the page request comes in....

Hope this makes sence to someone.... cheers in advance if you can help.

[cannes]

hi there

i think converting pictures on the fly is slowing down the process.

i would not place the picture in a container. but only an url in a text-field pointing to the picture.

like: pic1, pic2 etc.... and i would change the pics into jpg's

so by loading the page you would get the html-code generated on the fly from filemaker.

you may visit this link: http://www.hoe.ch/labels this has been made like this.

fill in the search field with a record-label and klick "go"

have a nice day

mimmo

[cuwet]

I think you are absolutely right... but unfortunately my client wants to be able to see the image in the database... and I don't want to have two images...

so I was woundering if anyone knows whether Filemake Pro Server re-compresses the image if it is already a jpg??

[Unable]

Sample Files: web publishing, the fmp-includefield tag & images

[jfmcel]

Just store the image as a file reference. FileMaker will not recompress the image.

[cuwet]

So I'm going to export all one thousand images with the product id number as each image's name... convert them all into jpg and then ftp the images onto the server to a specific location. Then re-import the images as a reference into a container field locally. Then when an image is required in a template page, just specify its location in the server directory??? Is this what you all mean???