save images as JPG?

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Dimas (Posted 2006) [#1]

Is there any way to save images as .jpg files instead of .bmp?

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2006) [#2]

AFAIK saving JPG (without to own a license) became legal not so long ago. That's why it isn't so common. Once upon every App that was capable of saving JPG had to purchase a license from the patent owner, and in the header of the JPG file they usually had to name the license owner. Saving JPG using blitz code may be a bit complicated (I guess there's no sourcecode yet), but there are some commandline tools that allow to convert a bmp to a jpg. you may try to find "bmp2jpg" at google.

Stevie G (Posted 2006) [#3]

If you don't need to save it within code, just load the .bmp into the windows picture viewer and saveas .jpg format from there. That's what I do. Stevie

Pinete (Posted 2006) [#4]

Maybe this can help you. Explore the complete post, is not very long. It seems that FreeImageLib can do that. http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=60011 :) regards

Ross C (Posted 2006) [#5]

Yep, the freeimage library is excellent for this :o)

markcw (Posted 2006) [#6]

i have just finished a decls for the latest freeimage. you can check it out here: http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1732