Re: Reading JPEG data

Here are my ideas:

It looks that your problem is becoming a massive one, because of M$'s new Office.

People are protecting their special proxy and not allowing everybody to download their images...

My idea is simpler: use Flash to show images: you know perl-ming or I've seen people getting a sort of skelleton from a basic flash script and only changing the image that it loads. That would be fine with Perl, don't you think?

Another idea is cutting the original images into thousands of pieces that would join back together in a big table of small cells. That should be programmed in order to do the exact cutting and fixing one piece in each table cell as their background image. I don't think that quality would be affected!

Hope it helps!

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Re: Re: Reading JPEG data by punchcard_don (Beadle) on Nov 05, 2003 at 18:55 UTC
If the client can stand a short latency between upload and display: It will take about four hours to have a graphic artist show you how to add a watermark to an image in any of the major graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint, and about 10 minutes to actually do the watermarking. Have him upload to a holding-file; write a script that alerts you by email of any upload; then download it, watermark it, re-upload it to the display file. Or do it once a day, etc. Sell it as a way to avoid heavy up-front costs to develop software, as he will only pay a small unit fee for each image as they are produced. This may create a small continuous revenue stream for you. Some day you'll pay your 14 year old nephew 1/4 the fee to do it for you.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Reading JPEG data
by punchcard_don (Beadle) on Nov 05, 2003 at 18:55 UTC

It will take about four hours to have a graphic artist show you how to add a watermark to an image in any of the major graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint, and about 10 minutes to actually do the watermarking.

Have him upload to a holding-file; write a script that alerts you by email of any upload; then download it, watermark it, re-upload it to the display file. Or do it once a day, etc.

Sell it as a way to avoid heavy up-front costs to develop software, as he will only pay a small unit fee for each image as they are produced. This may create a small continuous revenue stream for you. Some day you'll pay your 14 year old nephew 1/4 the fee to do it for you.

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