Re: [Ids-devel] Preview image ... snag

[Matthew M. <mr...@ne...>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> 
>     If you uploaded a file that's less than the $previewMaxDimension
> variable, no image gets created, and you get a broken image to see in
> the album view.  Somewhat annoying.  I don't necessarily like the idea
> of resizing an image UP to the $previewMaxDimension, but perhaps in this
> case we should?  However then I wonder, what if someone has their maxDim
> set to something like 250, and they upload a 50 pixel wide image -
> that's a 5x blow up, not pretty.

ImageMagick allows resizes to not force upsampling. I'd lean towards
having the tiny images just be themselves in the album view - no sense in
genericizing the size, as they will be lined up by the table they live in
anyway.

 > >     Maybe have IDS display a generic image instead?  Maybe the
> albumicon.png file, and overlay a big red X on it?  (I'm getting IE
> hallucinations)

No kidding! Step AWAY from the winders box, and no one gets hurt! ;)

-- 
Matthew