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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Thanks for the heads up on the resource usage Paul.  Yeah, I plan on
generating thumbnails as a scheduled process in the wee hours of the morning
and caching them in flat files. 

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> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf 
> Of Paul Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:13 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] ImageMagick
> 
> 
> Hey Tony,
>       ImageMagick is awesome. :) As to the question of 
> whether it's the best solution or not... well, that depends 
> on what you're using it for, I guess. I've never had a 
> problem with image quality using ImageMagick.
>       I /can/ tell you that if you're doing this for the web, 
> and you're planning on taking a bunch o' big image files and 
> dynamically making a bunch 'o thumbnails at each page load, 
> you're going to find that that's resource-intensive and slow 
> whether you use ImageMagick or something else. You can still 
> do it - but plan on building a way to cache the thumbs somehow.
> 
> --P
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> On Feb 20, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Tony Spencer wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone used the ImageMagick package to generate 
> thumbnail images?  
> > If
> > so, how is the quality of the image?  I'm interested in 
> finding out if 
> > this is the best solution.
> >
> > http://www.imagemagick.org/www/apis.html
> >
> >
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