Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-02-01 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Robert Landrum wrote: [...] 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

RFC: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Issac Goldstand
generator (currently supports only jpeg), which is just a spiced up implementation of Image::GD::Thumbnail. The second is a directory index generator, which displays each file name and a link to the picture, using URIs to the on-the-fly thumbnail generator to show the previews. Ideas

Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Gerald Richter
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

Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Landrum
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

Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Issac Goldstand
, 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

Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Issac Goldstand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Yeah,

Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Gerald Richter
ImageMagick is way too slow for use in a production system. Especially if your resizing large images into thumbnails. Apache::ImageMagick will cache the created thumbnail, so it only has to be done once and can it automaticly recreate the thumbnail if the pictures on disk changes. Gerald