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Basically, what you need to do is create a script
that pops them into a locked image (to force a resize) then exports them into a
file in whatever format you want. If you want to get superfancy you can also set
it up so that you keep the aspect ratio of the original graphic in the
thumbnail.
I have done something like this, so if you want
specific scripting help on how to do it, I would be happy to share the scripting
I have done.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:37
PM
Subject: Best way to create
thumbnails?
I've got an app which I've written (quite rapidly
thanks to Revolution), which allows the user to drag-and-drop JPEG images from
their hard-drive, and it automatically uploads them to a central repository
known only to the app. This is working great, but I'd like to do one
more thing - - - I'd like to see if it's possible for Revolution to create a
thumbnail image of each JPEG image that's getting uploaded, and place the
thumbnails within another directory on the server.
I'm looking for
advice as to the best way to accomplish this - - - since I'm just FTPing the
images right from the hard-drive to the server, I'm not actually opening and
reading the image files. Should I assume that I need to alter this
strategy and have Rev open each image file before it gets uploaded, and take a
snapshot of each image and shrink it and save it out as a thumbnail JPEG - - -
then FTP both the full-size image as well as the thumbnail image?
There's no "create thumbnail from JPEG" command that I've missed in Rev is
there?
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