Improvement Suggestion - Automated Resizing

[KevDog]

Im not sure if this topic has been covered, however how about adding the capabilities to the program of making thumbnails, microthumbnails, or any other size of image using a program such as netpbm. This program is freeware and allows automated resizing, rotating, and cropping of images. Advantages of netpbm over php's built in gd library:

1. GD won't support JPEG or PNG formats unless you have them compiled in to PHP. Most servers don't have it compiled in because it can be a pain to install the right libraries, etc.
2. GD won't support GIF unless you have a particularly old version of the GD library on your system that predates the copyright infringement issues [reference].
3. GD does not support image rotation. Can ya believe it?
4. GD generates terrible thumbnails, unless you happen to have included the ImageCopyResizedBicubic patch.

Just a thought. Im aware not all users would not want to use this option and would like an external program such as Photoshop or any other image editor to add their own microthumbs or thumbs. Automatic thumb, microthumb generation however would give at least most users a quick way to add photos to a gallery, and then give them the option to add or revise the thumbs, and larger scaled images later.

Just a thought. Thanks´

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net

*No affiliation with this product in the least, just thought it would be a viable option

[Pekka]

I have next EE here with support for graphics converters, now it uses GD2 (now included with PHP and with JPEG support) and Imagemagick via Imagick (wrapper library for ImageMagick) - Imagick will do USM sharpening, too.

I'll see how adding netpbm works. Currently exec driven programs are not an option as I will require that EE will work in safe mode which means PHP modules only. But you can of course put needed applications to safe mode's own safe directory...

Let's see...

[abubin]

hi!

I just discovered EE and found it to be very good compared to other FREE image gallery software.

But one feature that it really lack is the automation of thumbnail creation. I would considered it PERFECT once this feature is added. So far, I found the interface and the way you can customize it to be very good though there is a little learning curve to set it up properly.

I notice a lot of other image gallery software uses Imagemagick. Why don't you use that as well?

What is GD2? Does it work in Windows platform?

Anyway, how long till the next version that support autothumbnail be out? We will be using EE for internal purpose. If my boss really like this, I would ask her to pay for it. But paying or not it up to her.

Anyway, keep up the good work.