Hi, Tom. I also have an interest about this topic. I have tried to covert already opened file (handle), but I could not the way so fat today. If you just want to convert PICT to JPEG, I wrote a sample code. You may download it from my web. That filename is jpegcompress. I hope this helps you. Osamu Shigematsu >I purchased Image Read Write Utilities from Staz Software. > >I am interested in working with the Image Filter in such a way as to be able >to grab the specified image in a handle then write the handle to an already >open file. I also want to be able to build an array of the handles and then >write the handle to a database record. Is there a way to do this with the >current version of the Image Read Write Utilities. > >Thanks > > >Tom