[support] generating square thumbnails

[Ivan Boothe]

That does look like a perplexing problem, especially since I haven't  
seemed to experience any of the same problems. Two things mentioned in  
that thread would warrant additional investigation for me:

- whether it's a problematic interaction with another module, in  
particular because of the creation of the .htaccess files that somehow  
stop it from working
- whether it's due to the installation being in a subdirectory

It is a shame that the developers haven't contributed to that thread  
yet, though.



On Feb 11, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:

> That would be great if ImageCache was working, but it seems to be  
> having problems lately (http://drupal.org/node/208670).  I've used  
> it myself in the past and have liked it, but for some reason it  
> isn't working for a number of people.
>
> Steve
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Ivan Boothe <lists at quixoticlife.net>
>> 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_i
>> magecache
>> 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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