24 Aug
2011
24 Aug
'11
11:10 a.m.
Le 24 août 2011 à 11:03, Jerome Velociter a écrit :
Exactly.
I just wanted to warn that it might be a confusion.
paul
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Paul Libbrecht
<paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote:
So that NEEDS a desktop, right?
Better warn folks and suggest to use, on unix servers, vncserver... it's a bit of a
tricky thing in terms of management but it can work well.
Le 24 août 2011 à 10:41, Jerome Velociter a écrit :
Right now it's using the old image plugin, so java.awt classes. > * Should this module be limited to thumbnails
only or can we make it a more generic module in charge of handling image manipulations
(and caching) in general (and thus including thumbnails)? I see this as replacing the old
image plugin.
Just out of curiosity, is this plugin supposed to work properly within headless servers
and out of them?
I tend to meet often image manipulations tools that rely on a GUI which is a problem for
many servers.
At the end, everyone does it with ImageMagick (which is a fairly powerful tool). While I was thinking about going for an image module,
Sergiu pointed
me towards Apache xml graphics library.
FOP is for servers... that should work.
Using an external tool such as image magic as an
alternate
implementation could also be interesting indeed.
It's really easy to use! But maturation to control the process finely is not the
easiest I found.
We've used in i2geo's Vignette library (where users shoot vignettes of their
resource in use, it's uploaded, it's scaled-down and shaded, ready to be displayed
in the carousel, groovy, applets, gwt). i2geo.net and
http://svn.activemath.org/intergeo/Platform/Vignettes/ )
The name
"thumbnails" made me think of thumbnails of pages, which is another area in
evolution but would require an amount more work.
What do you mean by that ? Visual thumbnail representation of a document ?