[ic] image size

[Darnell Hudson]

Rick Bragg wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 17:40 -0800, Darnell Hudson wrote:
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>> Rick Bragg wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 19:03 -0500, Mike Heins wrote:
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>>>> Quoting Rick Bragg (lists at gmnet.net):
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>>>>> On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 13:07 -0500, Carl Bailey wrote:
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>>>>>> On Nov 9, 2008, at 10:48 AM, John Hoy wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>> John is quite right.  Having properly photo-shopped images of a  
>>>>>> standard size is the gold standard.
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>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>> Carl Bailey
>>>>>> End Point Corp.
>>>>>> t: 919-323-8025
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>>>>> Along this same thread, is there a simple way to "replace" the original
>>>>> image with the tag?
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>>>> 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.  
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>>> rick
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>>> Well how would use the makesize if you want all the images to be the right size. 
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> You could simply loop through all the products something like this
> maybe:
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> [query
>     sql=|
>         SELECT  sku, thumb
>         FROM    products
> |]
>    [image src="[sql-data products thumb]" 
>       makesize="80x120"
>     ]
> [/query]
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> rick
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Well one thing I did notice on the demo that some images can be on the thumb
directory, which I am trying to figure how to get my category page to 
point to the thumb directory. any ideas will be great.
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