Hi Stephan, Yes, we have discussed with Guillaume. We don't have a better solution to propose but we will be really interested if someone write a portable JPEG support. It will be cool to have the possibility to extract header informations from pictures without using a plugin. Best regards 2014-04-03 16:02 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Larcheveque < guillaume.larcheveque@gmail.com>:
If I remember well, we used this way to get some data about image required by PDF format.
Maybe there is a smarter way to do this, I will have a look with Olivier about this.
2014-04-03 10:32 GMT+02:00 Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl>:
Reg Krock took a look at how difficult it would be to port Artefact to
Gemstone. He found that JPEG support uses a plugin based reader/writer, and seems to render the JPEG using BitBlt and Form.
Why are JPEGs rendered? I'd think embedding them should be enough (and be better for speed and image quality)
Stephan
-- *Guillaume Larcheveque*