[ic] automatically resize product image during upload?

Greg greg at valuemedia.com
Fri Aug 13 17:50:08 EDT 2004


John Matecsa wrote:

>How could one automatically resize a product image during upload?
>
>On the product editor screen I'm trying to figure out some way to send
>the image name to a shell script after the file is saved. The shell
>script I wrote uses 'convert' from imagemagix to resize the images.
>
>I'm suspicious that the answer might lay in mv_metadata's filter. I've
>scouted for on-line docs and the mail archives for relevant examples of
>how to use filter but came up dry.
>
>Am I heading down the right road?
>
>
>My motivation... The user wants the convenience of submitting a just a
>high res image, then have the system resize it for thumbnails and a
>moderate image on the flypage. The highres picture is linked to from the
>flypage via a magnifying glass icon. They also want instant
>gratification, and don't want to want for cron job to do the resizing.
>...customers are always right. Right?
>
>Thanks in advance for any bones you can throw my way.
>
>  
>

Look at the documentation for the image.tag

interchange/code/SystemTag/image.tag

This will do what you are asking

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