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From: whiteheada@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Photo Database
Message-ID: <2196whiteheada@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 16:01:13 GMT
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I have about 400 photographs of various sizes up to 8 x 10 that I
would like to scan and incorporate into a database. They are family
photos some of which are 120 years old. My problem is that when I
scanned about ten of them using a ScanMan 32 set for grays and then
imported the scans into FileMaker Pro, the resulting database with
just the ten photos (I also had about six text fields describing
the photos) was about 700K in size.

Does anyone know of an efficient way of generating a database of a
reasonable size and speed for the number of photos that I have? I
noticed that the latest MacWeek had a review of several products
including MultiAd, etc. Are these types of programs what I need?

Thanks very much,

Armand Whitehead, BYU