[ic] image size

[Rick Bragg]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 19:03 -0500, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Rick Bragg (lists at gmnet.net):
> > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 13:07 -0500, Carl Bailey wrote:
> > > On Nov 9, 2008, at 10:48 AM, John Hoy wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Tho only proper way to do this is to have your images cropped and
> > > > sized to want you want them to be in Photoshop or other photo program
> > > > before you upload them into Interchange.  You could have a program
> > > > like ImageMajick scale them for you to a set size, but if you want the
> > > > same aspect ratio for all photos to be consistent it would be
> > > > impossible for a program to intelligently crop photos that are
> > > > uploaded at an undesirable aspect ratio.
> > > >
> > > > JD
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > John is quite right.  Having properly photo-shopped images of a  
> > > standard size is the gold standard.
> > > 
> > > However, if you don't have that option, the [image] tag might be your  
> > > friend.  You need to have ImageMagick installed on your server to make  
> > > use of all the features, but if you do, then something like [image  
> > > src="/path/to/the/image.jpg" makesize="120x80"] would rescale your  
> > > image to fit within the constraints of 120 pixels wide by 80 pixels  
> > > tall, while preserving the aspect ratio of the original.
> > > 
> > > You can read more about the [image] tag here: http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/tags/image.html
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Carl
> > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > > Carl Bailey
> > > End Point Corp.
> > > t: 919-323-8025
> > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > > 
> > 
> > Along this same thread, is there a simple way to "replace" the original
> > image with the tag?
> 
> No. But it wouldn't be difficult to write a mod that did it.
> 
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Thanks,  I realize how dangerous that could be with caching etc, so it
is best the way it is written.  

rick



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