[support] generating square thumbnails

[Xavier Bestel]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:52 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> 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 ?

BTW I looked at the diff with the 5.x-1.x-dev module, and there's no
crop capability in there too.

	Xav