Posted by dorayme on 09/20/06 09:01

In article <07u1h2l9100i2csil0dljd00q0ve2jl7on@4ax.com>,
Steven Saunderson <phelum@Syd.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:58:55 GMT, "Stuart Miller"
> <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > If I specify, for example, a 1600x1200 picture into a cell size of 160x120,
> > when does the compression take place? Does apache compress the image before
> > sending, or does the viewer's browser do the compression? Or can this be
> > controlled?
>
> The resizing is done by the browser. It is much better to supply a
> correctly sized image. If resampling is a bother I have a Win32 program
> that will resample and upload images. Check
> <http://stevensaunderson.com/pickup.htm> if interested.
>
> If you want to resample on the server it is easy with PHP provided the
> GD image processing library is available on your server.

Which is not a bad way to go I suppose, especially for the
thumbnails, you just load up the good bigger images. OP's example
is a bit frightening though! 1600 x 1200 indeed... In fact,
though, if the situation is not something very dynamic, and we
are taking just thumbnails and one enlargement, it is not a lot
of trouble to prepare high quality in a good photo editor and
load up the lot...

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dorayme

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