Thanks Jason, I have used ImageMagick in the past - and actually in other places in the application.
Using ImageMagick requires installion on the machine - I have been trying to keep my app to be able to run off of a thumbdrive or with a very small installation footprint. I may concede and require that ImageMagick be installed on the machine running my app. CFX_OpenImage worked very well under 2000 and XP - I am having a hard time getting it the CFX tags recognized with OBD 1.3 and Win 7. I also did an image quality comparison awhile back, and the resulting JPGs or PNGs were a better quality (in my mind anyway) with CFX_OpenImage than with ImageCFC and other tools. I will do a comparison with ImageMagick to see how the quality stacks up under my still working XP box. Alan, I am not familiar with the ImageXXx() functions you mention - is there any documentation or sample you can point me to? As always, thanks for your time, Rob On Dec 20, 4:15 am, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I played around with CFIMAGE for a long time. It works ok, and not that the > OpenBD camp has abandoned the tag, but for most all situations, you would be > better served to install and use ImageMagik. From what I remember, I was > told that development of the tag has been put on the back burner since > ImageMagik was available and it would take a serious amount of work to get > it remotely close to working like Imagemagik. It seems to be faster, more > accurate, more predictable, and easier to work with once you get the hang of > it. > > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php > > <http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php>I don't think any of the senior > OpenBD developers would disagree (since it was by their counsel I made the > switch). > > Here's a sample. IMAGEMAGIK is installed as a .exe on your host system, and > called via CFEXECUTE. > > <cfexecute name="c:/convert.exe" arguments="c:/myphotos/test.jpg -resize > 110x110 c:/myphotos/test_new.jpg" timeout="120" /> > > That simply finds a file (test.jpg) on the host system, and applies several > arguments which resize it to 110x110. It then renames it to test_new.jpg > > -Jason -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon official manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ Ready2Run CFML http://www.openbluedragon.org/openbdjam/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
