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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OT: Looking for command-line jpg editor that could be modified
Message-ID:  <20021024170246.N86468-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <02Oct24.191302edt.118482@gateway.stclaircollege.ca>

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take a look at the netpbm package... you'll probably want to pre-generate
the thumbnails as it's not super fast (ie, not fast enough to power a
website, but fast enough)...

-philip

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nathan Vidican wrote:

> I am looking to try and make a CGI application which can take in a single
> argument (the particular image to open), and return an image after scaling
> it down to a specific size. All images are the same size, and will all be
> scaled down proportionally. Here's the scenario:
>
> We've got a website, where a lot of pictures are frequently posted from one
> of about ten digital cameras. Fortunately all pictures are of the same size,
> but unfortunately that's 2048x1563 pixels and around 2Mb jpg to begin with.
> We'd like the viewers of the site to be able to selectively download any one
> of these high-res pictures, but generate thumbnails of each of the images
> and send them out on the pages. So basically I need a program which can
> proportionally scale down and return an image (in jpg format). I'd like to
> find something preferably written in either C/C++ or PERL. Any ideas or
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Nathan Vidican
> nathan@vidican.com
>
>
>
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