Hi Tom, > Perhaps... but speaking as the guy who wrote gd, it really isn't the > ideal way to turn a lot of big originals into thumbnails! (And neither > is ImageMagick.) gd and imagemagick shine when you want to add text > and other elements to an image and you're not struggling with giant > originals and memory constraints.
You're the guy who wrote The PHP GD library? Awesome! :-) Thanks for that info, and I never heard about netpbm before. I have one project where there's a lot of thumbnails creation from potentially big photos. So I'll definitely give it a try. > Also multiple back ends in a single plugin You mean, abstraction? ;-) > pkImageConverterPlugin does work in older Symfony versions. But the package is only flagged as for 1.2? Best regards, Sid On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Tom Boutell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> Would be even better if pkImageConverterPlugin supports (even better >> detects) GD. Then make it available for Symfony 1.0 and 1.1 (I think >> it should already usable in 1.0 and 1.1 just a matter of testing it). >> That way it would become the image plugin for Symfony :-) >> >> Just my 2c feedback > > Perhaps... but speaking as the guy who wrote gd, it really isn't the > ideal way to turn a lot of big originals into thumbnails! (And neither > is ImageMagick.) gd and imagemagick shine when you want to add text > and other elements to an image and you're not struggling with giant > originals and memory constraints. > > Also multiple back ends in a single plugin tend to lead to diverging > featuresets, which is what happened with sfThumbnailPlugin. > > But I'll give it some thought. > > pkImageConverterPlugin does work in older Symfony versions. > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
