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tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hello all

is there any way to have vds uses a jpg instead of bmp? without using any dll's? cuase when i convert jpg to bmp file size is huge Sad

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the commad i'am talking about is

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Check out this example by CodeScript:
http://forum.vdsworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=1944

It will allow you to display enhanced metafiles on a dialog which are
much smaller than bitmaps. Smile

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hummmm i looked at it not i'am not sure how to get it to work with a jpg picture Sad

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Sorry... I should have been more clear. Smile

You would need to convert your .bmp files to .emf files first. Smile

vtol · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:40 am Post subject:

You can resample your .BMP to 72 or 96 pixels, and(also) you could make them 8 bit paletted to reduce the file weight considerably, kinda like making light gifs for HTML pages.

Resampling allways helps and jpeg's is just another way to resample till filesize is lighter, but can exceed .BMP's because they use technology similar to zips.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hummm

ok i will have to play with it .....that to bad vds can't do jpg without dll jpg are nice and small...

thanks guys for the help

vtol · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:50 am Post subject:

What I'd rather have than .JPG is GIF, that way I could use some of my cool animated GIFs I made Smile

The Animation format VDS use's is limited on software to create it, Corel 11 and most others do animated GIFs.

The VDS ANIicon is very hard to create with the only program I could find, its Iconcool program or something like that. Maybe theres an easier program out there I don't know about. Wink

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I use a utility by pcmag.com called "CursorDance" which is real easy.
I got it back when they were giving it away for free. Smile

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

You can use the vdsbrw50 dll to display a JPG file, but I guess it's better to just convert the JPG files into BMP (in a temp folder) and to just display those... Smile

Serge · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

hi vtol,

you wrote

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:

You could use Prakash' vdsconv.dll... Smile

http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=34

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

will that covert it to .emf file?

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject:

No, but it does cover BMP2GIF, BMP2JPG, JPG2BMP and GIF2BMP... Smile

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i need to convert it to .emf Smile

going to see how much smaller .emf will make it....