[ic] Proper method of posting images?

Fri May 10 12:43:00 2002

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:58:18AM -0500, Andrew Lietzow wrote:
> On Friday 10 May 2002 10:08, Dan Browning wrote:
> > The 'convert' program is awesome for batch resizing, etc.
> 
> Okay.  I take the bait, Dan.  What is the 'convert' program?  
> 
> BTW, what I would want to do with a thumbnail converter is basically 
> identical to what KDE (2.2.1) Konqueror does when you access a file folder 
> full of GIF's or JPG's--it creates little pictures (thumbnails) on the fly.  
> Unfortunately, I have to say that Mike Heins is correct in that doing this 
> would probably slow the process down entirely too much--people would get 
> frustrated, click stop and be gone... Not so good....
> 
> So, I either need to create and save all of the thumbnails into 80x80 files 
> OR just not have thumbnails.  I'll try it both ways and see how responsive it 
> is.   
> 

Create the thumbnails when you upload the images or use a script outside
ic to do it periodically.  Or both.  Keep image sizes in your database
so your can render image tags correctly.  I don't think Mike meant
converting image sizes on the fly while you are serving pages to
shoppers; there is no question that would be slower.  On the fly in 
admin is not bad though.

> I think with the GIMP it won't take me too long to make the conversions but 
> if there is an automated routine and/or a URL that interprets for the brain 
> dead on Graphics, I'm all ears!   (The GIMP is for me perhaps THE number one 
> most frustrating package I've ever used.  Last week, after trying off and on 
> for nearly a year, I finally made some buttons of the right color and quality 
> that I wanted.  I wanted to declare the day a national holiday...)  
> 
> Danke,
> 
> Andrew Lietzow
> The ACL Group, Inc.
> Who just today switched to the KMail client and .... it's awesome!  
>  
> 
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