Kevin, Dang.
[I just sent this privately without realising. I'll copy it here] If I had any control at all over the page that the images were getting displayed on I would be using a rather funky little script I wrote some time ago that handles smart image resampling. Unfortunately, I don't have any access to it, which is why I was wondering if there was a way to compress the JPEG in such a manner that IE doesn't alias it so much. What I've found through experimentation is that if the source image has any aliasing on it, that gets amplified when IE shrinks it, but if the source has no aliasing, then IE's shrunk image contains minimal aliasing. Anyone know how IE handles image resizing? [Done copying] I guess IE doesn't actually resample the image so much as mess everything up. Netscape handles resampling images a little better, but none of our clients use Netscape, so that doesn't help me in any way. -- Cheers, Morgan Grubb. "Kevin Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 004001c21bcf$2354dea0$6401a8c0@kevin">news:004001c21bcf$2354dea0$6401a8c0@kevin... > I seriously doubt it. Windows is going to resize all images the same crappy > way. The fact is that Microsoft's graphics routines are abysmal. Anyone > who's ever scaled an image in Preview and then seen the same thing done on a > Mac knows what I'm talking about. All you can do is resize the image at an > exact ratio or the actual pixel size of the image and hope it doesn't look > terrible. Sorry for the downer. :( > -Kevin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Morgan Grubb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:02 PM > Subject: [PHP] Image aliasing > > > > Morning, > > > > I'm wondering if anybody has ever figured out a way to get around the > > absolutely abysmal way that Internet Explorer resizes images? > > > > The problem is that the person I'm supplying the images to refuses to use > > two copies (a small one, and a large one) and instead uses one (just the > > large one) and when he needs a small representation of it he slaps the > large > > image in and sets the width and height tags. > > > > The problem comes in when I'm trying to supply him with good looking > images. > > Sure, the large image looks fine, but that smaller image gets aliased to > > hell and back. Can the large image be recompressed in such a way that it > > doesn't noticeably damage the large version, but improves how it looks > when > > arbitrarily shrunk in IE? > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Morgan Grubb. > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
