On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Ramon Chavez wrote: > Mmm. > > Maybe I misspelled something. > > I meant that this program cuts rectangles from the original images, all of > them with the same proportions. Like if you were cutting cookies from the > paste for baking (lol). It then resizes all the resulting images to fit your > thumbnail size. > > You're right. There's some info left out, but I believe it's better than > deforming. > > I was about to try ImageMagik, but I found it's commercial, and I don't > think my application is worth of it. > > HAND. > > -rm- > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:45 PM > Subject: Re: Thumb-nailing Pic's > > > > >>>>> "Ramon" == Ramon Chavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ramon> I have found useful for making thumbnails of the same size, > > Ramon> regardless of the original size, the program "Express Thumbnail > > Ramon> Creator", from Express Soft (theres is a full working demo > > Ramon> version). It doesn't matter the dimensions of your images, it > > Ramon> can crop all the thumbnails to the same size, without > > Ramon> deformation. > > > > If they're all "the same size", you either have to deform, leave out > > info, or have some blank area. You can't skip all three. Which of the > > other two does it do then? > > > > ImageMagick's > > > > mogrify -geometry 100x100 *.jpg > > > > does a fair job of making a bunch of images that have 100 as their maximum > > dimension, scaling equally in both dimensions. > > > > You can do the same thing with PerlMagick *if* you can get PerlMagick > > to run. > > > > -- > > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 > 0095 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > > Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > > See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl > training! > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > I'm using Gallery to do this for me.. gallery.sourcforge.com.. It's PHP, but you might be able to get some idea's out of it.
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