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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] ImageMagick
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:14:27 -0500

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.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [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
>
> --
> Paul Smith
> Foundry Zero
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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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