I agree, but I like using sfThumbnailPlugin because it is simple and compatible in most environment.
I wasn't aware of pkImageConverterPlugin, sounds like a very serious image plugin. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Tom Boutell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I stopped using sfThumbnailPlugin because it's inefficient - if you > want three sizes, you have to load the original three times - and it > has inconsistent features between its backends and etc. Also actually > loading originals into memory is very inefficient if you're just > creating scaled versions. You can do that on a row by row basis. So we > wound up writing a simple wrapper around the netpbm utilities. > > So I suggest you try pkImageConverterPlugin, which is being maintained > and is a lot simpler with the potential to convert huge images without > actually allocating memory for them. It does require that your host > have the netpbm utilities, which your LAMP host should be willing to > install if they're not awful, and it isn't Windows-friendly. Also it > won't work if your hosting is lame... ahem... if your hosting is in > PHP "safe mode" and you can't call system(). > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM, David at Artefactual > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think the problem is that the plugin just isn't being maintained - >> this patch was submitted more than a year ago and it is still marked >> "unreviewed": >> http://trac.symfony-project.org/ticket/2691 >> >> David >> >> On Mar 16, 11:24 pm, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> I don't see why sfThumbnailPlugin is only available for Symfony 1.0. I >>> just tried it with Symfony 1.2 and it works well. >>> >>> It's just more convenient to be able to install it through PEAR. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sid >>> -- >>> Blue Horn Ltd - System Developmenthttp://bluehorn.co.nz >> > >> > > > > -- > Tom Boutell > > www.punkave.com > www.boutell.com > > > > -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
