Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-19 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott R. Godin) wrote: Many thanks to all of you who responded. :-) One of the things I love the most about these lists -- that one can get so many different perspectives on a problem and solution, because it gives one so much more of an

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-18 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott R. Godin) wrote: Many thanks to all of you who responded. :-) One of the things I love the most about these lists -- that one can get so many different perspectives on a problem and solution, because it gives one so much more of an

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Briac Pilpré
Scott R. Godin wrote: snip any pointers? I'm happy to toddle off and download and read my face off -- that's not a problem.. I'd just like to have some indication on which direction to start walking. :-) Here are some Pictures Gallery-type modules that can be found on CPAN: Apache::Album:

RE: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread John Edwards
January 2002 10:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thumbnail images on-the-fly I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken away, or prefaced with . to have them be ignored temporarily without removing them

Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Scott R. Godin
I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken away, or prefaced with . to have them be ignored temporarily without removing them. initial run of the .cgi indexes the directory into a local database file, and creates

RE: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread John Edwards
January 2002 10:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thumbnail images on-the-fly I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken away, or prefaced with . to have them be ignored temporarily without removing them

RE: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Hanson, Robert
, then the scheduled task would check the log for files to process and handle them. But that is just a suggestion. Rob -Original Message- From: Scott R. Godin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thumbnail images

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Daniel Gardner
Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 10:24:27 AM, Scott R. Godin wrote: I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken away, or prefaced with . to have them be ignored temporarily without removing them. [snip] any pointers?

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Johnathan Kupferer
Your choices are basically GD or Image-Magick I've had good experiences with both. Image::Magick is more full featured but slower so if you're doing anything on the fly you should use GD, but if its just a one pass sort of thing (and I think that is what you're doing) then Image::Magick is

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Pieter Blaauw
This is how I do it on a FreeBSD boxpath is different on linux etc, but works the same and straight from the command line...dunno if it helps. for a in *; do /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/work/ImageMagick-5.3.8/utilities/convert -geometry 128x96! $a thn-$a; done Cheers P. On Wed, 16 Jan