Le 24 août 2011 à 11:03, Jerome Velociter a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Le 24 août 2011 à 10:41, Jerome Velociter a écrit : >> >>>> * Should this module be limited to thumbnails only or can we make it a >>>> more generic module in charge of handling image manipulations (and >>>> caching) in general (and thus including thumbnails)? I see this as >>>> replacing the old image plugin. >> >> Just out of curiosity, is this plugin supposed to work properly within >> headless servers and out of them? >> I tend to meet often image manipulations tools that rely on a GUI which is a >> problem for many servers. >> At the end, everyone does it with ImageMagick (which is a fairly powerful >> tool). > > Right now it's using the old image plugin, so java.awt classes.
So that NEEDS a desktop, right? Better warn folks and suggest to use, on unix servers, vncserver... it's a bit of a tricky thing in terms of management but it can work well. > While I was thinking about going for an image module, Sergiu pointed > me towards Apache xml graphics library. FOP is for servers... that should work. > Using an external tool such as image magic as an alternate > implementation could also be interesting indeed. It's really easy to use! But maturation to control the process finely is not the easiest I found. We've used in i2geo's Vignette library (where users shoot vignettes of their resource in use, it's uploaded, it's scaled-down and shaded, ready to be displayed in the carousel, groovy, applets, gwt). i2geo.net and http://svn.activemath.org/intergeo/Platform/Vignettes/ ) >> The name "thumbnails" made me think of thumbnails of pages, which is another >> area in evolution but would require an amount more work. > > What do you mean by that ? Visual thumbnail representation of a document ? Exactly. I just wanted to warn that it might be a confusion. paul _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
