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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:11:22 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@freebsd.org>, Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making thumbnail images
Message-ID:  <20000911201122.B254@parish>
In-Reply-To: <39BC30A9.7F9DC536@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:08:57PM -0700
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:08:57PM -0700, Chip wrote:
> Webmagick refused to install on my fbsd4.0 system, the 
> thumbnail-index program appears to only work with existing
> thumbnails. Ben's suggestion looks like something that 
> would require some kind of programming, which I know 
> nothing about.

For an example of how simple the programming for this is take a look
at the bottom of http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/Oxford/ OK, I know
it's a csh(1) script, but converting it to sh(1) should be easy
enough.


> So, I am going to try imagemagick, once I
> figure out how to start the program.
> --
> Chip
> 
> Ben Smithurst wrote:
> > 
> > Mark Ovens wrote:
> > 
> > > I spotted this in the ports recently (I haven't used it though):
> > >
> > >   % portsearch -n thumb
> > >
> > >   Port:   thumbnail_index-1998.08.10
> > >   Path:   /usr/ports/www/thumbnail_index
> > >   Info:   Make an HTML index file for a bunch of images
> > >   Maint:  sanpei@FreeBSD.org
> > >   Index:  www
> > >   B-deps:
> > >   R-deps: jpeg-6b netpbm-9.8 png-1.0.8 tiff-3.5.5
> > >
> > >   Number of matching ports = 1
> > >
> > >   %
> > 
> > There's WebMagick too (ports/www/WebMagick), but I didn't like it much.
> > It created a hideous mess of JavaScript crap.
> > 
> > You can do it pretty easily in a script involving jpegtopnm, pnmscale,
> > and ppmtojpeg.
> > 
> > --
> > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
> 
> -- 
> Chip W.	
> www.wiegand.org
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