On 04/24/2014 12:29 PM, Aaron Schulz wrote:
> This is similar to what I proposed to Ori. For multi-page file
> (pdf,djvu,tiff) we'd prerender base thumbnails and use them for downscaling
> in thumb.php on demand. The base thumbnails would only be so large (e.g. not
> 10000px width) since there isn't much use case for massive thumbnails vs
> just viewing the original. This would also apply to single page TIFFs, where
> one reference thumbnail of reasonable size would be used for downscaling on
> demand. 

It might even improve performance to do this for all (or at least overly
large) images after looking a bit more into the distribution of typical
thumb sizes and their quality when scaled from a reasonably-sized base
thumb. With higher camera resolutions even JPG originals can be fairly
large. 2560×1600 for example should cover the vast majority of current
screens well, and could be referenced by the MultimediaViewer on high-res
screens where it currently falls back to the (potentially huge) original.

Gabriel

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