Posted by shimmyshack on 05/05/07 00:00

On May 4, 6:40 pm, "C." <colin.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 May, 17:57, nawfer <novalidsfors...@alt.al> wrote:
>
> > with php, respect at other programms (graphic or programming)
> > if I want to reduce the weight (KB) of one image,
> > are there many difference respect other programming language?
> > or is better to use delphi or visual basic or c++ or others, which?
>
> > isn't important the difference regards that php is not for local pc
> > because in the pc will be preinstalled the server.
>
> PHP is not the ideal tool for this job. As to what you should use?
> Well there's lots of toolkits out there which work with various
> language - I live in Unix land where automating these kind of things
> is much easier. But you haven't said what you're willing to sacrifice
> along the way (size, resolution, file format). Also whether the
> content comes from a trusted source is rather important. The type of
> image may have some bearing too.
>
> You might want to seek out ImageMagick - it may have been ported to
> run on MS.
>
> HTH
>
> C.

ImageMagick is great, my $0.02 too, and it does run well on M$, and is
what I use for backend image manipulation, in preference to the GD
library which tends to reduce the quality of the image (subjective
assessment) when resampling it.

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