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[ic] Proper method of posting images?
On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 02:06 PM, Bill Carr wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:33, Andrew Lietzow wrote:
>> Dear IC Wizards,
>> My images are typically around 380 x 320. Is there a way to tell the
>> system to format a thumbnail on the fly based on some constant (say 80
>> pixels) for one dimension, a variable, and to use the master image for
>> the
>> thumbnail? The 80 x 80 size would be much more workable but the time
>> to
>> produce could be lengthy. Or does this just hog too much system
>> resource
>> time?
> I would not try to do that on-the-fly. We use Image::Magick to do some
> automatic image handling but we do it on the admin side. In any case,
> you will want to check out Image::Magick.
>
A simpler perl module that is great for resizing (thumbnailing),
converting, cropping, etc., is Imager (available on CPAN last I
checked). It's much simpler to install and get running, use and seems
lighter. I used it to auto-process TIFF formatted faxes for redisplay,
cropping and OCRing via JOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net).
Robert Taylor
Above The Noise
robert@atnsolutions.com