[ic] Thumbnails

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Wed Sep 17 22:48:43 EDT 2003


Quoting Grant (listbox at email.com):
> I'm looking for something that will allow me to build thumbnails of my
> images through IC.  I've looked through the list archives and found
> references to UserTags image_collate, image-store, thumb, and image.  I'm
> having a tough time finding the actual tags, but besides that, what method
> and corresponding tag do you guys think would be best for making thumbnails?
> Would thumbs conditionally built on the fly depending on whether they exist
> already or not be the way to go or should I use something that builds them
> all beforehand?

The [image] tag in the latest IC CVS has a makesize=NNxNN option that
will automatically make thumbs on the fly. It requires ImageMagick
but not PerlMagick (too difficult to routinely install PerlMagick).

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Mike Heins
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