[ic] Proper method of posting images?

[Robert Taylor]

On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 02:06 PM, Bill Carr wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:33, Andrew Lietzow wrote:
>> Dear IC Wizards,
>> My images are typically around 380 x 320.  Is there a way to tell the
>> system to format a thumbnail on the fly based on some constant (say 80
>> pixels) for one dimension, a variable, and to use the master image for 
>> the
>> thumbnail?  The 80 x 80 size would be much more workable but the time 
>> to
>> produce could be lengthy.   Or does this just hog too much system 
>> resource
>> time?
> I would not try to do that on-the-fly. We use Image::Magick to do some
> automatic image handling but we do it on the admin side. In any case,
> you will want to check out Image::Magick.
>

A simpler perl module that is great for resizing (thumbnailing), 
converting, cropping, etc., is Imager (available on CPAN last I 
checked). It's much simpler to install and get running, use and seems 
lighter. I used it to auto-process TIFF formatted faxes for redisplay, 
cropping and OCRing via JOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net).

Robert Taylor
Above The Noise
robert@atnsolutions.com