On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:49:33PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:13:48 -0500 > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: > > > greets, folks! > > > > i'm engaged in a little project here, and it's moving along nicely > > except that i hope to do a thing or two that i do not know how to do. > > > > the project is this: last september i took pictures of the wedding of > > some friends, all digital, all 1600x1200 so that they print nicely. i > > hope to put together a cd of them for them -- in fact, several, so > > they can send them to their friends. i have a nice little script that > > generates cute little thumbnails and so on, all in html, so anyone > > will be able to use the cd to view the pictures. > > > > the problem is that most people do not have 1600x1200 monitors, so > > viewing will be a pain unless i can *also* provide, for computer > > viewing, say 640x480 images. > > > > there are a couple hundred pictures. opening them one after another > > in the gimp and downsizing them is something that unappeals to me so > > much you cannot believe it. > > Well, I know if you're using html to get the images, you can size them > within the html code, so you can have three html pages, one that renders > thumbnails, one that shows them at 640x480, and one that shows them full > size. > > Would that do it for you?
I would hope not. When you do that, the whole image has to be downloaded, and resized at the browser. That can be impossibly slow for a large collection. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
