Posted by Mike Hummel on 04/19/05 18:08

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php


The Disguised Jedi wrote:
> Is there a quick way to convert a TIFF format picture to a GIF quickly? I
> can only find support for GIFs in PHP, but maybe I'm missing something. I
> have a client running a photography business, and I have designed an image
> watermark and resizing engine, and a server to check the request, serve the
> file, and then delete it. I mainly made this to help him run the site
> himself, since he isn't very good with Photoshop, and can't watermark the
> images (I shouldn't say that...he probably could, but not very fast....but
> anyway...).
> This is all working fine and dandy, but the system will only accept GIF
> format. His images are all raw scans in TIFF format. This means that he has
> to open the image in Photoshop, resize it, and convert it to a GIF. I think
> he can do this himself, but I'd like to make it even simpler, which is why
> I'm writing.
> I need a quick way, preferably in PHP, but it doesn't have to be, to
> convert large batches of TIFF format images to GIF. Does anyone know of a
> way to do this?
> Thanks for reading, and for your responses in advance...
>

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