Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-19 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott R. Godin) wrote: Many thanks to all of you who responded. :-) One of the things I love the most about these lists -- that one can get so many different perspectives on a problem and solution, because it gives one so much more of an id

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Pieter Blaauw
This is how I do it on a FreeBSD boxpath is different on linux etc, but works the same and straight from the command line...dunno if it helps. for a in *; do /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/work/ImageMagick-5.3.8/utilities/convert -geometry 128x96! $a thn-$a; done Cheers P. On Wed, 16 Jan

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Daniel Gardner
Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 10:24:27 AM, Scott R. Godin wrote: > I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. > having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken > away, or prefaced with "." to have them be ignored temporarily without > removing them. [snip] > any pointe

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Johnathan Kupferer
Your choices are basically GD or Image-Magick I've had good experiences with both. Image::Magick is more full featured but slower so if you're doing anything on the fly you should use GD, but if its just a one pass sort of thing (and I think that is what you're doing) then Image::Magick is be

RE: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Hanson, Robert
I suggest using Image::Magick for generating thumnails. It is painless to do and the resulting files are of good quality. Here is a code snippet: use Image::Magick; my $im = new Image::Magick(); $im->Read($inputfile); $im->Resize( geometry => "200x200" ); $im->Write($outputfile); undef $im;

RE: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread John Edwards
I think you'll need to look at the image magik module for creating the thumbnails. I've looked at this in the past, and come away with headaches, but I believe it's the right tool for the job. Good luck John -Original Message- From: Scott R. Godin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 Janu