Hi It seems we got to a nice setup that resulted in enhancing the thumbnails display in our DSpace.
1) Under dspace/config/dspace.cgf set the size of the image to be created: thumbnail.maxwidth = 800 thumbnail.maxheight = 600 Note: Performance seems not to be an issue at this moment although the image size increased from 2kb to around 70kb. 2) In our theme I've changed the following line to add a CSS class to the thumbnail images: From: <img alt="Thumbnail"> To: <img class="thumbnail" alt="Thumbnail"> 3) And later I've added the .thumbnail definition to the CSS: .thumbnail { max-width: 110px; max-height: 110px; } Note: This way the larger resolution bigger image makes the thumbnail to look better. 3) I've used the command dspace filter-media -f -n -i <item handle> to force DSpace to recreate the thumbnail and it worked for most of the files I tried. Thanks for your support on this. Best regards Rodrigo Calloni System Librarian Felipe Herrera Library Knowledge and Learning Sector Tel: 202-623-2952 Fax: 202-623-3183 1300 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20577 USA www.iadb.org "Knowledge for Development Challenges" Please consider the environment before printing this email -----Original Message----- From: ivan.ma...@gmail.com [mailto:ivan.ma...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of helix84 Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 1:18 PM To: Calloni, Rodrigo Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Enhancing DSpace thumbnail image resolution On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Calloni, Rodrigo <rcall...@iadb.org> wrote: > Thanks helix. I think I expressed myself in a wrong way. > > I think you got the idea of what I needed here: > > "An alternative to make a thumbnail look better (as opposed to increasing its > resolution) would be to use a better downsampling method. But I didn't > investigate if there are any other possibilities in the filter-media > framework." If you want to investigate improving downsampling quality, in the mentioned BrandedPreviewJPEGFilter, this is where it takes place: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/mediafilter/BrandedPreviewJPEGFilter.java#L137 For starters, here's some pointers on how to change the sampling method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4216123/how-to-scale-a-bufferedimage If you find out that downsampling quality indeed can be improved, be sure to share it back with us! One thing I'm not sure about is which filter is used when (I'd guess JPEGFilter, but BrandedPreviewJPEGFilter uses the webui.preview.maxwidth/maxheight properties), so you may want to figure that out, too. > Anyway at this point we may see if by making the image larger and use CSS to > make it show small in some pages (results list) and bigger in others (full > view of item). So you need both better quality and two thumbnail sizes? Regards, ~~helix84 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech