Re: Re: So, how DO you generate the thumbnails

Joe, 
   
  Thanks *very* much for the offer but I'm no longer self employed so I can't guarantee off hand what might happen to the source.

Let me check out JMagick.

Geoff
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Panico" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: [pixory-beta] Re: So, how DO you generate the thumbnails


> Geoff,
> 
> For your outstanding contributions to open source, I'd be happy to
> give you a copy of the code, if you can guarantee that only you will
> have the source and the _source_ won't be redistributed. It's really
> nothing super special anyhow.
> 
> But on the other hand, I would suggest you also check out JMagick.
> JMagick is a JNI wrapper around the famous ImageMagick library. I
> haven't tried JMagick directly, but I have tried out the underlying
> ImageMagick, and I can tell you that it produces noticeably higher
> quality thumbnails than does Pixory. In fact, it produces the highest
> quality thumbnailing I have ever seen (better than ACDSee, WinXP,
> iPhoto). In fact, I'm planning to move Pixory over to JMagick,
> provided that I don't encounter problems with the introduction of
> native code.
> 
> regards,
> 
> joe
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Geoff Longman" <glongman@i...> wrote:
> > It's a demo for an app that might go commercial
> > 
> > Oh, well. I'll keep looking.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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