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Forum Newbie
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| The problem noted above did not occur in the earlier versions and only occasionally in the Beta version, but now it seems to be a chronic situation in Version 2.0.0.9. Even normal/unedited jpeg's seem to randomly appear and disappear. I've tried placing a copy of the picture folder adjacent to the folder containing my ".gno" files and this didn't improve anything.
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Legendary Master
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Can you tell me a bit more about those JPEG pictures? For instance, what size (dimension) are they?
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| Hi, The "pictures" data fields list the following: File Size Dimension Megapixels DPI Portrait -A 3284 KB 4146 x 3302 13.69 300 Portrait -B 2336 KB 3104 x 4088 12.68 300 Here's a tip I tried, without success; it came from the Help files of PhotoStudio 2000*: "We are aware of the problem with saving images as JPG files through certain PhotoImpression bundles. To alleviate this problem, first save the image as a different file type (such as BMP). Then, open the saved file and resave it as a JPG. You will be able to save without getting an error." *this photo-editing software came with my Canon scanner Thanks for your interest in my problem. Old Salt
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Legendary Master
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| The problem is those pictures are too big. Internally GenoPro converts the JPEG images into bitmaps using the built-in Windows routines. Depending on your video driver, Windows may fail to create a large bitmap. Try reducing your images width and height to a maximum of 1500 pixels and it should work. See Pictures run out of memory.
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| Hi 'Legendary Master'; thanks for the helpful reply. I wasn't familiar with how to go about resizing an image but, thanks to a knowledgable friend I was led to a free download from Microsoft from one of their sites (found on Google) listed as "Power Toys" and this small program is (from a list of about a dozen) called "Image Resizer". It did the job. Now, however, I'm puzzled as to why GenoPro converts image data to bitmaps when bitmaps are so inefficient - e.g., the following is a quote form Wikipedia: "BMP files are usually not compressed, so they are typically much larger than compressed image file formats for the same image. For example, an 800×600 24-bit image will occupy almost 1.4 megabytes. For a more concrete example, the 1058×1058 Wikipedia logo, which occupies about 287.65 KB in the PNG format, takes about 3281.5 KB as a 24-bit BMP file." And: "As such, BMPs are generally unsuitable for transferring images on the Internet or other slow or capacity-limited media." ... etc. Also, neither of my other genealogy programs (Family Tree Legends & PAF/Personal Ancestral File) have ever had the problem described in my first posting.
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Bitmap here is being used in contrast to vector, which is the sort of program GenoPro uses to save the family tree diagram. Vectors are good for saving lines and geometric shapes.
Bitmap is the generic name for pixel pictures, such as a digital camera records. You can save every pixel, in a variety of formats including Windows .bmp but they can also be compressed. The jpeg ( or jpg) format is a very widely used example, although best used for pictures, rather than diagrams
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Old Salt (8/27/2007)
Now, however, I'm puzzled as to why GenoPro converts image data to bitmaps when bitmaps are so inefficientGenoPro converts bitmaps only in memory to display them on the screen. This is the only way of doing it. What GenoPro could do is convert a portion of a JPEG into a bitmap to save memory, however any application wishing to display an JPEG or PNG image on the screen has to convert it to a bitmap. Since I don't have the time to write the code to convert portions of JPEG images into bitmap, GenoPro converts the whole JPEG into a bitmap before displaying it on the screen. If the JPEG is too large, then the image fails to appear because Windows is unable to allocate such a large bitmap.
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