Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE (SOLVED)

I suppose you could scale and rasterise to gain DPI, or else convert to a neutral vector format like SVG https://github.com/miyako/4d-plugin-PDF2SVG On Feb 8, 2020, at 1:08, Ken Eyring via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: Thank you for raising the potential

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE (SOLVED)

Hi Chuck, Thank you for raising the potential issues with Windows. As you pointed out - I cannot view on Windows the PDF images in a form that displays the image field, and I cannot print the images using a variable. I do not have these issues with Mac OS X, but some of my customers are

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE (SOLVED)

Hi ken. I assume you hav no PCs that uses this database. If you do viewing PDFs may not yield the same result. You also as far as.i know can’t display in a picture variable or print them in a picture variable Chuck On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 6:36 AM Ken Eyring via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE (SOLVED)

Converting to PDF instead of PNG, JPG or TIF solved the blurry issue. Thank you very much! On 02/06/20 4:25 PM, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech wrote: Hello, PICT is a container format, it can contain either raster or vectorial images. it sounds like you have vectorial images. on Mac, you can

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

Hello, PICT is a container format, it can contain either raster or vectorial images. it sounds like you have vectorial images. on Mac, you can use the command to convert PICT to PDF, which will result in "sharp" images. otherwise you need to scale up the image before converting it to a

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

Hi Tom, I took a look at the methods that are available in the component you sent. It's not clear to me what I need to do in order to convert the image format of an image that is stored in a picture field. Is there any documentation available? Thanks again, Ken On 02/06/20 1:15 PM, Tom

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

h Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:41 AM To: '4D iNug Technical' <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> Cc: Ken Eyring Subject: Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE Hi Steve, I tried converting the images to .jpg. ipng and .tif using CONVERT PICTURE. Each fo

RE: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

Subject: Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE Hi Steve, I tried converting the images to .jpg. ipng and .tif using CONVERT PICTURE. Each format I tried resulted in blurry images. To follow up on your question... I opened up a window that d

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

You should be able to automate conversion of most PICTs using JPR’s PICT_Convert. However, if you have static PICTs pasted directly onto forms, those will need to be individually visited. A v17 MSC log will give you a listing of those, I think. Tom Benedict > On Feb 6, 2020, at 09:40, Ken

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

I want to clarify a typo... The formats I tried to convert to were ".jpg", ".png", and ".tif". I wrote "ipng" below for "png" format. On 02/06/20 12:40 PM, Ken Eyring via 4D_Tech wrote: Hi Steve, I tried converting the images to .jpg. ipng and .tif using CONVERT PICTURE.  Each format I

Re: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

Hi Steve, I tried converting the images to .jpg. ipng and .tif using CONVERT PICTURE. Each format I tried resulted in blurry images. To follow up on your question... I opened up a window that displayed one of the images that is stored in a field. I copied the image into Preview on a Mac,

RE: Poor Image Quality When Converting Pict Image to JPG and TIF Using CONVERT PICTURE

Ken, Just curious... Do you get different results if you use a graphic's application for the conversion? Steve -Original Message- From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@lists.4d.com> On Behalf Of Ken Eyring via 4D_Tech Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:00 AM To: 4d_tech@lists.4d.com Cc: