[ic] image size

[Darnell Hudson]

Rick Bragg wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Heins
>> Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
>> phone +1.765.328.4479  tollfree 800-949-1889 <mike at perusion.com>
>>
>> Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Bacon
>>
>>     
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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
>
> Well how would use the makesize if you want all the images to be the right size. 
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