DCPM: image scaling

[Matthew Browning]

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On Monday 17 November 2003 10:11, Steve Marvell wrote:
> Matthew Browning wrote:
> > > I've been using GD, but it seems a bit overkill.
> >
> > PerlMagick.  But I try to steer clear of the area.
>
> Even bigger then :)
>

Uh, yeah.  And grotty to use also.

This sort of thing comes up for me when doing some kind of CMS with 
loads of users who want to upload photos of stuff they have done.

I've found it such a nightmare in the past to provide defence against 
15MB 1024*768 photos (in a way that keeps them looking okay) that my 
inclination is, rather, to provide education in client-side image 
processing for web-delivery.

You can set a maximum upload size but your end users don't particularly 
dig error messages, however helpful they are.

No doubt I need to go read some book about graphics processing 
somewhere but if anyone in mongerland has a *good* experience of 
dealing with this kind of problem I'm ready to hear it.

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