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.

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

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??

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

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

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???