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- Path: annex-106.bmi.net!user
- From: jgager@bmi.net (John Gager)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Scale'ing of JPEGS
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 02:53:39 GMT
- Organization: Blue Mountain Internet
- Message-ID: <jgager-0101961848250001@annex-106.bmi.net>
- References: <DKH54v.K16@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>
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-
- In article <DKH54v.K16@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>,
- mfrena@world.nad.northrop.com wrote:
-
- > I've got a couple of huge jpeg pictures that I'd like to scale down in
- > size. From about 1620x1290 to 1024x768. When I try to use Adpro with
- > an A3000 with 14 Megs of ram I get a requestor asking for 14 megs of
- > continous ram and one for 20 megs of ram. Since I don't have this much
- > ram I cannot do anything with these pictures.
- >
- > My question is, is there any other programs available for the Amiga via
- > share/freeware that I can use to scale down these pictures? Or maybe
- > some utility that I can use for this purpose?
-
- Sounds like you need to use a virtual memory program like VMM (Shareware),
- or something commercial like "GigaMem". That way you could set up a 20MB
- virtual memory file to handle your large JPEG's. Another possibility is to
- purchase ImageFX, which has built-in virtual memory capability.
-
- John
-