resizing large tiffs eg >30mb

[holstermedia]

Hi all

I'm still having problems with large images with all my SC clients...

They import large (30mb+) tiffs into filemaker with SC.

They need to export large (1200px x 1200px) 72dpi and 300dpi jpegs from the tiffs.

Using SCGetContainer with a specified w/h has been working well to generate the jpegs which I then export with export field contents - but this won't work for large tiffs.

If I display the image in a web viewer with the "noapplet" style, and a 300dpi resolution it displays a jpg or png on the screen ok.

So SC can generate the large jpg/png and display it in filemaker but can't then export it in anyway?

It's very frustrating because I can see the large thumbnail directly in the SC files, but as I don't know the SC calculated name of it I can't then set a container reference path to the file...

Can you explain the way the thumbnail is named? That way I could easily script a reference it.

I hope you can help as I seem to be going around in circles with this...

Thanks

Steven

[RK812]

Try to find thumbnails at

/Users/Shared/SuperContainer/ # SCBaseURL

thumbnails/

.../ # the same path structure as for the orig. file

295x262o/ # $width &"x"& $height&"o"

image_tif.jpg # $file_name &"_"& $file_extention &".jpg"

My problem is that SC on FMS 10 doesn't generate thumbnails for large TIFF and EPS files. SC standalone works fine.

PS: SuperContainer 2.0 and higher running in standalone mode on OS X uses OS X's CoreImage rendering to generate thumbnails.

Edited September 24, 2009 by Guest