[ic] image size

[Rick Bragg]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 17:40 -0800, Darnell Hudson wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> > 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. 

You could simply loop through all the products something like this
maybe:

[query
    sql=|
        SELECT  sku, thumb
        FROM    products
|]
   [image src="[sql-data products thumb]" 
      makesize="80x120"
    ]
[/query]


rick







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