sincerely yours,
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Marc Van Gastel, PhD.
Director ICT Antilope
CEO Mediagroep
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Van: Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Datum: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 12:45:55 -0700
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Onderwerp: Re: Witango-Talk: Thumbnails for Tango
Almost, but two things have held me up. First, I working hard on testing Witango v5 OS X with all of my code, which takes a lot of my time, and two, I only received a response from a handful of people.
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Robert Garcia
BigHead Technology
2781 N Carlmont Pl
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Phone 805.501.1390
Fax 805.522.8557
http://www.bighead.net/
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From: "Trevor Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:15:25 +0200
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Thumbnails for Tango
Hi Robert
Did you ever get round to doing this? I would be interested in acquiring such software if it exists.
Regards
Trevor
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From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 April 2002 11:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: Thumbnails for Tango
Based on some of the threads in the past about thumbnailing images quickly, I have an idea that I would like to see how much interest there would be from this list.
I can create a background app that will run on windows and the mac for generating thumbnails on the fly. I have already written most of the code, and I have already created a test app to verify it would work correctly. My thoughts are to create an app that would be easy to communicate to from any application server and any platform. On windows, the method of communication is normally command line, and on the mac it is applescript. But it would be great to have one app that you could deploy on either platform, and the communication to the app would be the same whether the app was on win or mac, and the app server could be on any platform.
My thumbnailer app sits in the background and waits for communication (I am intentionally leaving the method out, but it is simple). While it is waiting it takes up no processor time. It waits to be passed these settings:
Source File
Is Folder?
Destination folder
Destination Extension
Thumb Width
Thumb Height
Quality from 0 � 1024
Output file type (can be BMP,PNG,PNTG,8BPS(psd),SGI,TPIC(Targa), and JPG)
My app will then instantly begin thumbnailing the images based on these settings, and can read any image type that Quicktime can handle, which is almost everything. If the source is a folder, it will thumbnail all the images inside and save the thumbs into the dest. Folder with the new extension like �_th.jpg�. The width and height will be the area the picture must fit within, so you don�t have to worry about aspect.
One of the great benefits of my app is that it would not need to be on the same computer as the app server. So you could dedicate a machine to thumbnailing, and it would queue incoming requests, so you would not have to worry about it missing a request because the app was busy.
Anyway, I have not pursued this in any other way, or with any other group. Let me know if any of you would be interested, and you can be a part of making it work exactly to our needs as cross platform web developers. My intent would be to sell it as shareware for $35 to $50 a pop.
I just don�t feel like starting the work until I know there is interest. I already have a test app, and I would have a beta in a couple of weeks if there is interest. I also have an app that would read image blobs from a database, and then write thumbnails back in as blobs. Maybe later.
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Robert Garcia
BigHead Technology
21053 Devonshire Suite 206
Chatsworth, Ca 91311
Phone 818.773.8162
Fax 818.773.8164
http://www.bighead.net/
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