I think it is easier to just upload the high res version once, even if you explicitly mean to use one of the smaller versions for some offline project.
Fred - you are right that the /directory trees/ of thumbnails are now not browsable,but all of the individual thumbnails are world-readable. http://wiki.laptop.org/images/thumb/6/6c/Green_and_white_machine.jpg/150px-Green_and_white_machine.jpg SJ On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Christoph Derndorfer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:31 PM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 16:07, Christoph Derndorfer >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> > If jumping over these extra hurdles bring a lot of value and can be >>>> > described >>>> > in simple terms then I'm all for it >>>> >>>> Good point. I see you're writing "MISSING IMAGE", that's fine too. >>>> My alternative lets a writer show a placeholder image, see >>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Skierpage#Placeholder_images . Either >>>> way makes it easy to find missing images. >>>> >>>> I documented both under >>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images >>>> >>>> I notice the instructions say 800px wide screenshots. I think it's >>>> faster/better to leave them at 1200 wide and tell the HTML or markup >>>> to display them smaller. >>> >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> thanks a lot for adding the instructions >>> to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images, much appreciated. >>> >>> As for the width of the screenshots we chose the 800px wide because that >>> works well for consumption on the XOs (as it leaves plenty of space for a >>> menu, etc.). >> >> >> When a 1200x900 pixel image is uploaded to the wiki and then displayed at >> an alternate size, such as with the [[File:Screenshot >> wanted.png|800px|ActivityName screenshot]] wiki code, then the wiki resizes >> and saves a .png copy of the image at 800 pixel width in an /images/thumb/ >> branch folder. >> See, for example, all the sizes saved here: >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/thumb/9/95/Journal_tag_mockup_frm_gary_v1.png/ >> >> (Direct navigation to the thumb branches on wiki.laptop.org has been >> blocked. One only sees the message, "Down for upgrades. Come back >> tomorrow!") >> >> The 120px and 320px images are saved for the thumbnail and preview on the >> File page. The others are generated when a new cropping width is requested >> by some wiki code. This allows the wiki server to cache the images for >> better performance. This also means that the XO laptop, or any browser does >> not need to process the original image size. > > > Hi Fred, > > sorry for the slow reply. > > Re-reading your message now I'm not sure what exactly you're suggesting > here. It sounds to me like getting the thumbails out of the wiki afterwards > is a bigger hassle than taking the 15 seconds it takes to resize the > original image and upload that one. Or am I missing something here? > > Thanks, > Christoph > >> >> --Fred >> >>> I see little value in keeping the 1200px wide version (with the exception >>> of reducing one step in the image work) as we can't count on having the >>> manpower to do extensive post-processing, resizing of all images, funky >>> exporting, etc. once everyone leaves here in just over 48 hours... >>> >>> Christoph >>> >>> -- >>> Christoph Derndorfer >>> >>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] >>> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] >>> contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] >>> >>> e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support-gang mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang >> > > > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] > > e-mail: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
