Dermot Paikkos wrote:
Hi,
I want to create html pages what shows all the image files in a
directory as thumbnails.
The problem is that the directories will contain large files, usually
over 50MB tiffs and the number of files could be up in the 10's.
Obviously without imposing limits, the whole process could take ages
to complete.
What I was wondering was was is there some way to directly access the
preview image? What I was thinking was perhaps I would extract the
preview (if it exists) and use that for display purposes.
Does that sounds possible? Are the any method within IM that can do
that?
If you're thinking that you want to generate the thumbnails on the fly,
I'd think that would be really slow. You can constrain the size of an
image on the web page w/an html command so it appears as a thumbnail but
that's a bad idea because the client has to download the full image even
though it appears small. You don't want to be doing that with 50 MB files!
What is commonly done is to create thumbnail images from the full size
images, and post them. Each image is a link to the full size file.
Your web page loads fast, and people can pull down the large version by
clicking on the thumbnail.
You can convert them to thumbnail size with IM or any number of graphics
packages.
HTH...
...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357
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