Robert Landrum wrote: > At 4:13 PM +0100 1/21/02, Gerald Richter wrote: > >> > I recently decided that Apache::Gallery is really nice if you want to >> >>> sit down and start fiddling with templates, but that I needed to make a >>> "quick-easy" version for myself. The design is to be extremely simple, >>> and is divided into two seperate modules. The first is an on-the-fly >>> thumbnail generator (currently supports only jpeg), which is just a >>> spiced up implementation of Image::GD::Thumbnail. >> >> >> You may want to take a look at Apache::ImageMagick (if you not already >> have). It's let's you create thumbnails very easy (just two parameters >> pic.xxx/scale?geometry=100x100) and ImageMagick supports over 80 >> different >> formats. It also handles conversion from 4 color pictures to RGB for >> your >> thumbnails and many other things, if you need them. > > > ImageMagick is way too slow for use in a production system. Especially > if your resizing large images into thumbnails. I suggest sacrificing > space for speed and pre-generating all your thumbnails. > > Most of the time libjpeg will do everything you need, including > scaling. I suggestion GD with Jpeg support or Inline.pm/C/libjpeg for > real time conversion of jpegs. > > There are probably other faster libs out there, and I'm just citing > the ones I've heard about or used in the past. > > Rob > > -- > When I used a Mac, they laughed because I had no command prompt. When > I used Linux, they laughed because I had no GUI.
Part of the idea here is to do everything on-the-fly so that changes on the filesystem (in terms of adding/removing pictures) will IMMEDIATELY take effect (including caching, etc) on the web interface. That means no thumbnails to start with. Issac
