At 4:13 PM +0100 1/21/02, Gerald Richter wrote: > > I recently decided that Apache::Gallery is really nice if you want to >> sit down and start fiddling with templates, but that I needed to make a >> "quick-easy" version for myself. The design is to be extremely simple, >> and is divided into two seperate modules. The first is an on-the-fly >> thumbnail generator (currently supports only jpeg), which is just a >> spiced up implementation of Image::GD::Thumbnail. > >You may want to take a look at Apache::ImageMagick (if you not already >have). It's let's you create thumbnails very easy (just two parameters >pic.xxx/scale?geometry=100x100) and ImageMagick supports over 80 different >formats. It also handles conversion from 4 color pictures to RGB for your >thumbnails and many other things, if you need them.
ImageMagick is way too slow for use in a production system. Especially if your resizing large images into thumbnails. I suggest sacrificing space for speed and pre-generating all your thumbnails. Most of the time libjpeg will do everything you need, including scaling. I suggestion GD with Jpeg support or Inline.pm/C/libjpeg for real time conversion of jpegs. There are probably other faster libs out there, and I'm just citing the ones I've heard about or used in the past. Rob -- When I used a Mac, they laughed because I had no command prompt. When I used Linux, they laughed because I had no GUI.
