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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / TD4 Squeezer Tool
« on: 2017-04-21 02:34:41 »
Being hit by the Access database 2 GByte limit, I am doing a TD4 squeezer Tool. (Which I of course will share when it's ready and which supposedly also can be mofified to support tpdb8 files.)

The goal is to have the user collect would-be "old" thumbnails in a Gallery and then run the Squeezer that will reduce the space by applying an extremely strong JPEG compression on the selected thumbnail pictures. Same would be displayed a lot less nice in thumbnail view, but could be recreated by just hitting F3.

Maye this is not possible, then the tool will either remove the selected thumbnail pictures or replace them by some very small default picture.

My program already can access the database and find and load the data of the selected thumnail picture information.

Now I found that this information is not a full JPF file content, but supposedly just the pixel information without the JPEG header. This information supposedly is given in some other fields of the thumbnail record.

Does anybody know a definition of this information, so that I can manage it ?

Thanks,
-Michael

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Database upgrade
« on: 2017-03-25 04:35:37 »
Hi Exert(s),

I am in a terrible need, as the old "Access" database engine, our TP7 setup (two users) uses hit the 2GB limit and TP is not usable any more.

Since years, we are planning to upgrade to a more recent version of TP using a more recent database engine. I even tried a Server based database (Postgres on a Linux box) but this was hard to set up and in the end a lot slower than the old "Access" stuff.

Unfortunately (according to some discussions in this forum), TP10 does not yet seem to provide a tool to import a TP7 Access type database to an SQLite Database.

Is there any help (other than installing a network server box with MSSQL) ? Either by upgrading to TP10, or by using TP7 with SQLite ?

-Michael

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With TP7 we excessively use Web Galleries to create content on multiple websites.

Here these Galleries are embedded either in html-frames or in iframes.

Now - as websites need to run on mobile devices ("portrait" and "landscape" layout) - the static layout of the web galleries is not appropriate any more.

Does the new Version of TP allow for creating dynamically shaping web gallery layouts ?

Thanks,
-Michael

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Conversion to tpdb8s
« on: 2015-07-26 16:43:48 »
With TP10, I tried to convert a tpdb8 database to tpdb8s format.

As TP10 does not seem to provide a dedicated means for this, I just created a new tpdb8s, exported the content of the tpdb8 to a txt and then tried to import the txt to the new database.

Here I get nothing but an  error message "Obtaining mounted Volume Information" -> "Format error in file".

This seems like a horrible bug making TP10 unusable for me even before trying any of it's features.

-Michael

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Copy and pase crash
« on: 2014-03-29 06:49:19 »
When I select and copy a rectangle in a picture and then paste is into the same picture and after that press ESC to leave the picture hoping to be asked whether I want to save it, the picture editor crashes. I can't remove the picture from the screen (but I still can close the TP main window.

-Michal

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ThumbsPlus Suggestions / Linux
« on: 2011-06-02 12:34:26 »
A Linux version of TP8 please !

-Michael

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ThumbsPlus Suggestions / paste image area and zoom.
« on: 2011-06-02 12:29:58 »
Of course we would like to see some shortcomings of TP7 removed. Here, an important request is that zooming and panning should be possible when placing an area to be copied (after ctrl-v) onto a picture. This would keep us from using an external picture editor for some standard tasks.

In fact when you view an image and dud a ctrl-V to paste an area onto it, you can drag the area to the desired location and burn it on the picture by pressing Enter.

When zoomend, it's possible to pan the picture by moving the area behind the margins, but when doing other "normal" pan or zoom operations (scroll wheel, ...) the area gets burned down.

It would be great if normal pan and zoom operations would be possible when placing a copy area.

AFAIR there also are issues when copying an area from one picture toward another one that is in another zoom magnification, or when pasting an area bigger than the visible part of the target picture.

-Michael

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