[ic] Interchange should make thumbnails

[Grant]

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:14:44PM -0500, tom friedel wrote:
> > It could use Netpbm utilities to resize an image when it is upoaded.
> > I've done that in the custom shopping carts I've written.  I think
> > thumbnails are best as jpegs as most people have truecolor displays (as
> > opposed to 256 colors).
> > The code I have converts to 'pnm', calls pnmscale, and then calls
> > ppmtojpeg (for example).  If I had more time I would undertake
> this.  If
> > anyone has any questions feel free to contact me.
>
> You can do this quite easily with Image::Magick, which, of course,
> requires the C ImageMagick libraries to be installed also. We use it at
> palmdigitalmedia.com for book cover images.
>
> use Image::Magick;
> p = new Image::Magick;
> p->Read("imagefile");
> #You can specify one or both of height and width.
> p->Scale(height => $thumbnail_height);
> p->Write("thumbnail-imagefile");
>
> modulo error checking and sizing policies.
>
> -Gyepi

I'd like to use Image::Magick to resize, unsharp mask, and possibly overlay
a semi-transparent logo.  Do you use the unsharp mask function at all?

- Grant