RE: Automatic thumbnail images

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1998

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texte = I'm willing to sacrifice alot of quality to avoid having to run separatecgi's or AppleScript, or worse yet - having to manually make thumbnails.> -----Original Message-----> From: Chris W. [mailto:talk@e-pages.com]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 1998 2:35 PM> To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com> Subject: RE: Automatic thumbnail images>>> After reading all these other responses , it seems thats not what your> looking for , are you wanting webcat to resize the html variables> for you ?> If you succeed in doing this , you will probably get really crappy> thumbnail quality , because the html variables will just force it smaller> giving it a not antialiased effect , I say just get you a thumbnail> generator and run gifs or jpegs through it , for quality>>>>> Chris> -->>> At 11:18 PM 8/3/98, you wrote:> >To be more specific, I want browsers to be able to upload any JPG or GIF,> >then have WebCatalog display a page showing the contents of the upload> >folder, using thumbnails.> >> >In other words, once a graphic is uploaded, can I display a thumbnail of> >that image by reducing the vertical and horizontal size parameters of the> >image tag, and do so while preserving the proportions of the> original img?> >> >> -----Original Message-----> >> From: Howard Wolosky [mailto:howardw@mmtsolutions.com]> >> >> Get Macromedia Fireworks to do that.> >> >> >I want to automatically make a thumbnail for each of several> images on a> >> >server.> >> >> >> >Say I want the thumbnail max height to be 100 pix and width> to be 80 pix.> >> >Images can be of any original height and width.> >> >> >> >How can I reduce the image so that both height and width are below the> >> >maximums and yet maintain the aspect ratio for the image (the ratio of> >> >height to width)> >> >> >> >The trick would be to know either how to get at the height> and width info> >> >from the original file which could be GIF or JPEG, or have some> >> other tool> >> >that can report image information for use within HTML.> >> >> >> >Any Ideas?> >> >> >> >Pat> >> >> >> Howard Wolosky> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------> >> MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions> >> #160# 973-808-8644#160##160##160##160##160##160##160##160##160##160#> http://www.safecommerce.com> >>> >> Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: Automatic thumbnail images (Pat McCormick 1998)
RE: Automatic thumbnail images (Pat McCormick 1998)
RE: Automatic thumbnail images (Pat McCormick 1998)
RE: Automatic thumbnail images (Pat McCormick 1998)
Re: Automatic thumbnail images (Gary Richter 1998)
RE: Automatic thumbnail images (Chris W. 1998)
RE: Automatic thumbnail images (Rob Marquardt 1998)
Re: Automatic thumbnail images (PCS Technical Support 1998)
Re: Automatic thumbnail images (Howard Wolosky 1998)
Re: Automatic thumbnail images (Dave MacLeay 1998)

I'm willing to sacrifice alot of quality to avoid having to run separatecgi's or AppleScript, or worse yet - having to manually make thumbnails.> -----Original Message-----> From: Chris W. [mailto:talk@e-pages.com]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 1998 2:35 PM> To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com> Subject: RE: Automatic thumbnail images>>> After reading all these other responses , it seems thats not what your> looking for , are you wanting webcat to resize the html variables> for you ?> If you succeed in doing this , you will probably get really crappy> thumbnail quality , because the html variables will just force it smaller> giving it a not antialiased effect , I say just get you a thumbnail> generator and run gifs or jpegs through it , for quality>>>>> Chris> -->>> At 11:18 PM 8/3/98, you wrote:> >To be more specific, I want browsers to be able to upload any JPG or GIF,> >then have WebCatalog display a page showing the contents of the upload> >folder, using thumbnails.> >> >In other words, once a graphic is uploaded, can I display a thumbnail of> >that image by reducing the vertical and horizontal size parameters of the> >image tag, and do so while preserving the proportions of the> original img?> >> >> -----Original Message-----> >> From: Howard Wolosky [mailto:howardw@mmtsolutions.com]> >> >> Get Macromedia Fireworks to do that.> >> >> >I want to automatically make a thumbnail for each of several> images on a> >> >server.> >> >> >> >Say I want the thumbnail max height to be 100 pix and width> to be 80 pix.> >> >Images can be of any original height and width.> >> >> >> >How can I reduce the image so that both height and width are below the> >> >maximums and yet maintain the aspect ratio for the image (the ratio of> >> >height to width)> >> >> >> >The trick would be to know either how to get at the height> and width info> >> >from the original file which could be GIF or JPEG, or have some> >> other tool> >> >that can report image information for use within HTML.> >> >> >> >Any Ideas?> >> >> >> >Pat> >> >> >> Howard Wolosky> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------> >> MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions> >> #160# 973-808-8644#160##160##160##160##160##160##160##160##160##160#> http://www.safecommerce.com> >>> >> Pat McCormick

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