[support] generating square thumbnails

[sander-martijn]

I use imagecache quite a bit and it works very nicely.  You have to make 
sure to set your image quality (can't remember if that's an imagecache 
setting or somewhere else in drupal) pretty high or it will create 
pretty crappy looking thumbnails.  I use it with views bonus grid view, 
with thickbox, and with brilliant gallery.  It works quite well for me. 
  I haven't used acidfree so don't know about that - i remember looking 
at it at one point and deciding it wasn't what i was looking for but i 
don't remember why - could be because it didn't work with imagecache.



Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On lun, 2008-02-11 at 13:42 -0500, Randal wrote:
>> At 1:26 PM -0500 2/11/08, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> Quoting Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:45 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>>> Quoting Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> No solution ?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Use CSS.  Add width and height parameters for img for the class.
>>>> Do you mean trying to fit a rectangular image in a square ? Won't that
>>>> distort it ?
>>>>
>>> Probably.  What are you looking for?  Can this search [1] help or [2]?
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=resize+image+site%3Adrupal.org
>>> [2] http://www.google.com/search?q=resize+img+php
>>
>> Of course he doesn't want to distort the image!
>>
>> The fact this sort of thing is not really easy to do is one of the
>> BIGGEST stumbling blocks to average users and especially designers
>> using Drupal. This should be one of the most basic and simplest things
>> to implement and use in the program.
> 
> Apparently I have 3 solutions (with typical Drupal results):
> 
> - use CCK+imagecache+imagefield. But then I can't use acidfree anymore
> (and I must migrate all photos and albums, img_assist and other stuff
> won't work anymore - out of question).
> - use image_exact. This looks like the perfect solution, except that it
> doesn't work (it can't resize existing images, doesn't work with mass
> import and fails as soon as you change your image settings)
> - wait for mmedia (Media Manager) to become ready, because from the
> description it's everything I need.
> 
> I don't doubt there are other solutions (it's Drupal), including rolling
> my own code, but I didn't find anything easy to deploy, and working.
> Yet.
> 
> 	Xav
> 
>