"rmg2768" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rmg2768> Has anyone hacked around with the image conversion utilities rmg2768> called by the Plucker parse routines? This are not a Hack, the reason that the parameters are in the ini and not hard coded in the parser are exact for this stuff you are doing :-) rmg2768> I got better results with detailed images (comics) that I rmg2768> wanted to scale down to fit into the 160 vertical pixels of You know that plucker handle also larger images if the picture are >150 (see the alt_max(width|height) keys)? rmg2768> the Palm by using the following in plucker.ini (in the rmg2768> [WINDOWS] section for my setup): BTW: you could also specify this on DB level by setting this key in the Channel INI. rmg2768> convert_program_parameter= -geometry 500x160 -sharpen 10x10 %input% bmp:%output% Maybe you could also try: convert_program_parameter= -geometry <%maxwidth%x%maxheight% -sharpen 10x10 %input% bmp:%output% This convert to a max size of maxwidth/maxheight, do your sharpen and convert to bmp. bmp_to_tbmp_parameter=-i=%input% -o=%output% -compress=%compress% -bpp=%colors% This convert the bmp to an Tbmp _without_ change the size. Run convert/Bmp2Tbmp without parameters to see all commandline switches, rmg2768> broad gray areas. From what I can tell, the bmp2tbmp program rmg2768> normally does the scaling after convert.exe runs (twice, at rmg2768> normal and maxwidth scales, for images that are larger than rmg2768> the screen) and is sophisticated enought not to dither BTW: Not if larger as the screen, if larger then allowed by the settings. (The parser do not know something about the palm screen size) rmg2768> images, but doesn't offer the same c ontrol over antialiasing rmg2768> and contrast that the ImageMagick utility does. true. rmg2768> tall will always be scaled to 160 vertical, etc... Seems like rmg2768> ImageParser.py would need to be hacked up considerably to rmg2768> support a more general solution. no, see above. cu, Dirk -- Permanent URLs to the latest Version (1.1.11SR1) of the Plucker Windows installer - For the Webpage: http://www.dirk-heiser.de/plucker - Direct Download: http://www.dirk-heiser.de/plucker/plucker.exe [2.94MB]
