Ryan, et al -- ...and then Ryan A said... % % I did want to check out what Al wrote but got scared as he mentioned "steep % learning curve"
1) He actually meant shallow; there is, indeed, a lot to learn with IM. 2) IM is truly fantastic, and we use it for our gallery application; we generate thumbnails as needed but cache them for future use. Our load isn't too bad as a result. 3) I'm going to soon be adding watermarking (some sort of copyright or other text, either large and transparent or small and opaque) and splashing (like "SOLD!" or such, large and fairly or completely opaque) to my app, and I'll either mogrify the original image (and so thumbs won't need any extra attention) or add the text to the thumb at gen time (and so the "view original" will actually look at a full-sized splashed 'thumbnail'), respectively. It should be quite straightforward but I'd also love to see anyone's examples :-) 4) I'd love to see a PEAR IM module a la PerlMagick (but I haven't even looked yet, so please don't flame me for missing something obvious). One of these days I'll have The Great Rewrite and that will go in then. I'd love to be rid of the system() calls to convert and mogrify. % % Cheers, % -Ryan % % http://Bestwebhosters.com HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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