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From: willil@mentor.com (Willi Lohmann)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: re:  PC/UNIX/Mac databases that support images?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 17:02:07 GMT
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In <26017@cup.portal.com>, Andre_Louis_Marquis@cup.portal.com writes

>The most important property is that the database can display the image on the
>screen.  An ideal database would accept multiple image formats as input and
>display the images as precisely as the hardware allows.  Is 4th Dimension this
>flexible?  I'm stuck dealing with everything from 16x16 monochrome bitmaps to
>1152x900x24 bit images.  512x480x8 bits is about the minimum (~256K/image).
>
>Since you mentioned uninterpreded byte strings, what databases support even
>that?  Product literature rarely mentions such things.  Thanks.

You might want to include Interbase in your search.  They can handle the
images in BLOB's inside or outside of the database.  The BLOB's are unlimited
in size.  I'm not sure if they support the Mac, or if the database can actually 
display image data without you adding some sort of display code.

Are there databases out there that can display image data?

Since image data is produced at a specified dpi, I would think a pretty fancy
program would be required to modify the image data for different dpi hardware
without the source used to produce the image.

bye - willi