Re: Automating image import to FileMaker
Re: Automating image import to FileMaker
- Subject: Re: Automating image import to FileMaker
- From: Grant Symon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:08:04 +0100
Jan Steinman <email@hidden> wrote:
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> From: Erkki Pennanen <email@hidden>
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> I4d like to get simple (modifiable) script which is importing images
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> (and other stuff) eg. from folder into Filemaker database.
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If your images are of any significant size, don't import. Instead,
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reference them. I had some 40 largish images in a FileMaker database,
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and it was slow as mud. I pulled them out and referenced them
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instead, and the difference was something wonderful!
I run a smallish image base in FileMaker, which is very handy because it
lets me tie in work/projects/images directly with my client database (one
good reason for using FM). Anyway, I found that FileMaker is virtually
unworkable with Tiffs, but is acceptably rapid with JPEGs, even a maximum
quality JPEG.
As for import scripting. I'd like one too. I can do the FileMaker end, but
not the Applescript end and this is the way to go. FileMaker has a very
tight integration with Applescript and if you either know how to code
Applescript of can commission a script, then it should be very simple to
automate the process of creating new records with images in them, from say a
folder with a Folder Action attached for example.
Grant (Paris)
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