On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
No, at least not the use we are doing of those classes. I'm using it headless on a unix system with no special configuration for example. > >> 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. Yeah that would be something cool. If I would to be looking into it, I'd look at what can be done with processing.js to make a "preview" (or thumbnail) of an HTML page. (Not sure that's the best, but that's where I would start :) ) > I just wanted to warn that it might be a confusion. > > paul > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Jerome Velociter Winesquare http://www.winesquare.net/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
