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Import image, resize, export for windows!


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Trying to save a few steps for the user, but going to have some fun on the development end. I currently use the troi file i believe to make refrences to images on a computer. I have a way to capture an image directly from a camera to a computer. User will select the images in FM and they'll get loaded directly into a FM record. I need a way to automate importing a file into a graphic container, resizing it to a specified size, and exporting it back to an image file. Troi graphic looks like it can do the resize, and inside scan looks like it can export, but i'd like to find a way to do it all at once. Keep in mind, this is on a PC setup, i don't have the luxury of a mac.

Thanks

-j

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You can't resize images directly in FMP. Make sure that the Troi plug-in is actually resizing the imported graphic, rather than showing an image of the graphic that has been temporarily resized to fit the container field. If it isn't, then you'll have to go through some other software to actually resize it.

Additionally, if you're only creating references to the graphics, then there's nothing to export. Which makes sense, since in most cases you can't directly export graphics from FMP either (you can export container fields -- or links in container fields -- to other FMP files, but little else). Again, check to make sure that this "inside scan" thingy is actually exporting images the way you want to.

With Macs, I'd suggest an AppleScript, and on Windows there is something else that serves a similar function; I just don't remember what it is (I'm in "the luxury of a Mac" myself).

Hate to throw cold water on your ideas, and I hope I'm wrong here (and when's the last time I said I hoped I was wrong? -- how about 1978!).

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