Rev cannot open my jpeg ! - and some serious thinking

[Mike Markkula]

Sarah,

The script below will at least treat the user properly.

I too wish wish wish Rev would remove the 4095 pixel width limit!
(there is no height limit) As is, its a deal breaker for any serious
app in the photography arena.

Mike Markkula

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function importImageFile theFilePath
   -- attempt to create image given its file path
   -- if successful, return its id,  if not, return empty
   -- Rev can import images wider than 4095 pixels,
   -- but can¹t display them properly

   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   put the last item of theFilePath into theImageName

   try
      import paint from file theFilePath
      put the ID of the last image into theImageID
      if the width of image ID theImageID > 4095 then
         delete image ID theImageID
         put empty into theImageID
         beep
         answer "Sorry, I can't open " & quote & theImageName & quote & \
         " because it's wider than 4095 pixels."
       end if
   catch anyError
      if anyError is not empty then
         delete image ID theImageID
         put empty into theImageID
         beep
         answer "Sorry, I can't import " & quote & theImageName & quote & \
         " because " & anyError & "."
      end if
   end try

   return theImageID
end importImageFile
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On 6/27/09 5:33 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Which brings me to the forum question "I've got photos of 13 megapixels that
>> Rev can't handle". Who wants to push the (Revolution) envelope that far ?
> 
> Me for one. My app Pic-a-POD <http://www.troz.net/Pic-a-POD/> suffers
> greatly from this problem as more and more large images appear on the
> internet. At the moment I am forced to check for images with more than
> 4000 pixels on any side, and if so, I just have to show a notice
> saying that the image is too big to display. This is not always
> correct as a tall thin image can work but I haven't been able to work
> out an exact algorithm for telling what will work and what won't. Even
> more unfortunately, there is no error reported when Rev tries to
> display an image that is too big - you just get horrible grey streaks
> or some other form of distortion.
> 
> As consumer level cameras produce larger and larger images, the
> prevalence of such images will only increase and I think it is
> unrealistic to say that people shouldn't be using such large images.
> If their cameras can do it, why would they not take images at the
> highest possible quality? This is not a problem that is going to go
> away and I think RunRev need to give some serious thought to fixing
> the image object.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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