[support] generating square thumbnails

Xavier Bestel xavier.bestel at free.fr
Tue Feb 12 08:52:51 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 19:09 -0500, Brian Puccio wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Alternatively, use image.module, which offers the option to scale or  
> scale and crop the image to a desired resolution.

I'm using the image.module 1.6, but the option to crop is nowhere to be
found. Are you sure it's not coming from another module ?

	Xav




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