save images as JPG?

Is there any way to save images as .jpg files instead of .bmp?

AFAIK saving JPG (without to own a license) became legal not so long ago. That's why it isn't so common. Once upon every App that was capable of saving JPG had to purchase a license from the patent owner, and in the header of the JPG file they usually had to name the license owner.

Saving JPG using blitz code may be a bit complicated (I guess there's no sourcecode yet), but there are some commandline tools that allow to convert a bmp to a jpg.

you may try to find "bmp2jpg" at google.

If you don't need to save it within code, just load the .bmp into the windows picture viewer and saveas .jpg format from there. That's what I do.

Stevie

Maybe this can help you.
Explore the complete post, is not very long.
It seems that FreeImageLib can do that.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=60011

:)

regards

Yep, the freeimage library is excellent for this :o)

i have just finished a decls for the latest freeimage.

you can check it out here:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1732