[thelist] Server Side Image Resizing Issue

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Evans" <chris at fuseware.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:34 AM


> Bob Haroche wrote:
> > I'm using the CF custom tag imagesize to get the width/height of
> > uploaded images.
>
>    Are you using the free tag CF_ImageSize?  If so, it's buggy with
> JPEGs.  It has to do with the way JPEGs stores image size information.
> It works great for GIFs, but not reliably for JPEGs.

FYI, I recently started using the free combination of ImageMagick (command
line util) and Alagad's free CT set to simplify access to it.  It seems to
work fairly well for light-weight implementations.

http://www.imagemagick.org
http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-products

I've used imagemagick by itself for fairly substantial batch jobs (80,000+
images resized and overlaid ontop of another image) and it didn't even
hiccup.

Definitely worth a peek, if you ask me.

-joshua