Re: [support] generating square thumbnails
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@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_a... 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@free.fr>:
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:45 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@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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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@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_a... 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@free.fr>:
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:45 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@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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