The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Image::Shoehorn
DSLIP: bdpOp
description: Massage the dimensions and type of an image
userid: ASCOPE (Aaron Straup Cope)
chapterid: 18 (Images_Pixmaps_Bitmaps)
communities:
similar:
Image::Magick Image::Magick::Thumbnail
rationale:
Description :
Image::Shoehorn will massage the dimensions and filetype of an
image, optionally creating one or more "scaled" images.
It uses Image::Magick to do the heavy lifting and provides a single
"import" objet method to hide a number of tasks from the user.
Rationale :
Just before I decided to send this message, I noticed that Lee
Goddard had just released Image::Magick::Thumbnail. Although there
is a certain amount of overlap, creating thumbnails is only a part
of the functionality of Image::Shoehorn.
Image::Shoehorn is designed for taking a single image, optionally
converting it's file type and resizing it, and then creating one or
more "scaled" versions of the (modified) image.
One example would be a photo-gallery application where the gallery
may define (n) number of scaled versions. In a mod_perl context, if
the scaled image had not already been created, the application might
create the requested image for the request and then register a
cleanup handler to create the remaining "scaled" versions.
Additionally, scaled images may be defined as "25%", "x50", "200x"
or "25x75" (Apache::Image::Shoehorn is next...)
Shoehorn?! :
This package started life as internal library named Image::Import;
designed to slurp and munge images into a database. It's not a very
exciting name and, further, is a bit ambiguous.
So, I started fishing around for a better name and for a while I
was thinking about Image::Tailor - a module for taking in the "hem"
of an image, of fussing and making an image fit properly.
When I asked the Dict servers for a definition of "tailor", it
returned a WordNet entry "make fit for a specific purpose [syn:
{shoehorn}]" and that was that.
enteredby: ASCOPE (Aaron Straup Cope)
enteredon: Fri Jun 7 12:34:37 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Image::
::Shoehorn bdpOp Massage the dimensions and type of an image ASCOPE
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