[support] generating square thumbnails

[Ivan Boothe]

I have to agree with sander-martijn here -- there IS a way to do it,  
and it's imagecache. I use it on my sites and I love it.

http://quixoticlife.net/artgallery
http://ringsforever.com/classic-titanium-wedding-rings

sander said he uses it with thickbox; I use it with lightbox2 and it  
also works very well. I learned all I needed to know about it from  
Lullabot:

http://www.lullabot.com/articles/image_and_image_exact_sizes_vs_imagefield_and_imagecache
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/imagecache_example_user_profile_pictures

In this particular case, Xav wants to ALSO use acidfree, and in that  
case, it's true, it doesn't seem like there's a ready-made solution.  
But that seems like a pretty specific use case to me. Personally I  
love imagecache, so I would focus more on integrating it with acidfree  
than trying to roll something custom or waiting for media manager.

--ivan


On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:42 PM, 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.
>
> -- Randal
>
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