Re: [Slightly OT] Standardizing image uploads/making thumbnails

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At 06:02 PM 3/5/2005 -0500, jonathan vanasco wrote:
>What have people here found good to use (a2/mp2)?
 > ...
>         ImageMagick looks better, more stress on the server

How I've always handled server-side image manipulation is to skip doing it 
in the server process.  I take the upload and drop it somewhere on the 
filesystem, then have a cron job sweep through at a later time and process 
the image using ImageMagick.

I wrote the little script that I use a few years back.  It uses a 
configuration file in the upload directory to handle the site-specific (we 
host many sites) parameters for the image processing.   There's also a 
master configuration file that tells the script where the image upload 
directories are.

During the time between the upload and the processing, the user gets a 
generic "thumbnail not available" image, clicking upon which retrieves the 
full, unprocessed image.  No one's ever complained.

My understanding is that uploading and processing images inside mod_perl 
isn't really the best use of your clock cycles.  YMMV, of course.