On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:18:30 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> 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. Umm, this is all on a CD. So it would be local to the machine, no downloading necessary. That, or I can't read and understand what dep said. Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto Internet (H323) phone: 206.28.187.30 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users