Make sure you use imagecreatetruecolor() with GD when resizing images or you'll get some undesirable results. Imagemagick's convert and mogrify worked well for me although I was resizing an uploaded image.
Ed Curtis On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Will wrote: > Thanks!! I found some documentation on the GD library. > I most likely be posting again!! :) > > ~WILL~ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > gd seems to work fine ? even nconvert via command line does a good job and > > it resizes gif too > > > > > >>I'll second that one, I wrote a shell script in PHP to resize images, > >>using ImageMagicks mogrify > >>command, and it took ages. It's really much too slow for a web site. > >> > >>If you need a faster solution, I think you have to buy something. > >> > >>On 26 Feb 2004, at 09:15, Adam Bregenzer wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 02:25, Will wrote: > >>> > >>>>I forgot to mention what I was trying to do. > >>>>There is a web page that pulls the image file name from the database > >>>>then reads the URL to the directory where the image is. Is it > >>>>possible > >>>>to just resize it when the web page is brought up in the browser? > >>> > >>>I use ImageMagick's[1] convert[2] to do this. It is not a PHP module > >>>and must be run through exec[3]. Also, in my experience image > >>>manipulation is rather time consuming, it is a good idea to cache > >>>altered images so they do not have to be recreated on every page load. > >>> > >>>[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/ > >>>[2] http://www.imagemagick.org/www/convert.html > >>>[3] http://www.php.net/exec > >>> > >>>-- > >>>Adam Bregenzer > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>http://adam.bregenzer.net/ > >>> > >>> > >>>-- > >>>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>> > >>> > >> > >>-- > >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
