[FX.php List] Creating thumbnail for TIFF uploads on the fly

[Dale Bengston]

I'll throw my recommendation behind ImageMagick, which works great  
for modifying images on the fly.

I'm also using GhostScript to rip screen preview JPEGs of PDFs I  
create with FPDF (see previous thread on FPDF).

Dale

On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Michael Ward wrote:

> Hi Troy,
>
> On 01/10/2007, at 7:51 AM, Troy Meyers wrote:
>
>> I've set up a PHP page where customers can upload photos. On the  
>> confirmation page following the upload I show a thumbnail-sized  
>> version of the photo and some size and type statistics.
> <snip>
>> The thing I need is something to replace the line:
>> $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($source_filename);
>> ...that will read the TIFF file content into the $image variable.
>>
>> It'd be called "imagecreatefromtif" if it were built into PHP, I  
>> expect, but I can't see one. Any suggestions?
>>
>
> I'd do this using ImageMagick <http://www.imagemagick.org> with  
> MagickWand for PHP.
>
> This gives possibility of manipulating many image types on the fly  
> as they are uploaded.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Ward
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