proportionalimage Scale property
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Applies to
acProportionalImage as subproperty of JPEGProperties structure.  

Declaration
type  
  TJPEGScale = (jsFullSize, jsHalf, jsQuarter, jsEighth);  
 
property Scale: TJPEGScale;  

Description
Determines the size of the JPEG image when it is displayed.  
 
Use Scale to optimize performance for previewing an image. jsFullSize displays the image as maximum size, whereas jsEight displays an eighth of the image size, but 8 times faster.  
 
TJPEGScale is the type of the Scale property. The following table lists the values of TJPEGScale:  
 
ValueMeaning  
jsFullSizeDisplays a full-size image.  
jsHalfDisplays a half-size image in half the time it takes to display a full-size image.  
jsQuarterDisplays a quarter-size image in a quarter of the time it takes to display a full-size image.  
jsEighthDisplays an eighth-size image in an eighth of the time it takes to display a full-size image.  
 
Scale it used for reading in files, that is, for decompression.  

See also
CompressionQuality, Grayscale, Performance, PixelFormat, ProgressiveDisplay, ProgressiveEncoding and Smoothing properties.