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Re: Jpeg in a .sav file [message #59244 is a reply to message #59243]

Thu, 13 March 2008 13:53

David Fanning
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Rick Towler writes:

> Well, maybe he wants to embed an emblem or logo in a .sav file.
> Something a bit more "professional" than simply distributing a separate
> file. I mean, *anyone* can do that!
>
> The trick is encoding the image into a function. Like so:
>
> http://www.acoustics.washington.edu/~towler/programs/make_im ageFunction.pro
>
> Like the header says, there are I'm sure a load of issues you could run
> into. I've used this on a number of smaller images and it works but I
> would expect this to fail with even "medium" resolution images. Also
> you'll want to tweak this a bit as I was working with .png files.

Well, I'm sure this has a use somewhere. I'm not sure "professional"
is the word I would use to describe it, though. "Rube Goldberg
solution" comes to mind. ;-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: Rick Towler on Thu, 13 March 2008 17:05
		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 March 2008 15:24
		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: Dan Larson on Thu, 13 March 2008 14:05
		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 March 2008 13:53
		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: mmiller3 on Thu, 13 March 2008 13:37
		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: Rick Towler on Thu, 13 March 2008 13:16
		Re: Jpeg in a .sav file By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 March 2008 10:33

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