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Bram Luyten (@mire) commented on DS-929:
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Copy from Tom De Mulder's email on the devel list:
DSpace@Cambridge uses custome thumbnail code for a variety of reasons:
* Separating these UI components from actual archival content
* Reducing database load
* Having thumbnails generated on the fly rather than waiting for the
media filter
* Having higher-quality thumbnails than those produced by the default
DSpace thumbnail system
Because we got several enquiries into how we did this, we made the code
and an explanation thereof available online:
http://tools.dspace.cam.ac.uk/thumbnails/
We hope this will turn out to be useful for people with problems similar
to those we used to have.
> Crisp thumbnails
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> Key: DS-929
> URL: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-929
> Project: DSpace
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Bram Luyten (@mire)
>
> The standard DSpace functionality makes thumbnails look ugly (distorted, not
> anti-aliased, ...)
> http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/6663
> It's definitely possible to improve this because a few repositories out there
> have implemented custom solutions, for example:
> http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/browse?type=title
> Look at those nice, crisp thumbnails!
> The Cambridge implementation was initially developed for performance reasons.
> So, they changed the implementation, and generate the thumbnails on the fly
> using ImageMagick. These thumbnails are cached in a single flat file
> directory. If there's a corrupted thumbnail, re-generating is just a case of
> deleting, and it'll automatically be generated next time it's needed. Even
> with an empty cache, this system seems faster than the default DSpace system.
> info: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
> Any developer out there that wants to take a stab at this?
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