Re: [GD-DEVEL] Re: Ugly White column of pixels in thimbnails anyone?

[email protected] (Joe Pea) Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:56:30 -0700
Newsgroups php.gd.devel
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Well, at this point I've dropped Prestashop and am now using WP-eCommerce
plugin for wordpress.  If I come across the problem again in another
application, I will definitely look for the code to provide it to you guys.
Thanks! -Joe

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jason Young <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> I do see the white bars. What I would guess is that the software is not
> resizing this properly, or doing unnecessary tricks to achieve this goal. It
> would really help if you could dig through the code and provide the code
> used to generate thumbnails. It *should* be fairly short...
>
> Also, what version of this software are you using? It looks like they
> updated a week ago, and the have a number of entries in their changelog
> about fixing product images (but nothing specific, so I don't know)
>
> -Jason
>
> Joe Pea wrote:
>
>> Okay, check this out: www.bettafootwear.com/CrownYourFeet/shop <
>> http://www.bettafootwear.com/CrownYourFeet/shop>
>>
>> The thumbnails you see all have a white line on the right side.  I have
>> made the site all black just so you can easily see the column of white
>> pixels.  I've also experienced this problem with various other wordpress
>> plugins that use GD also creating an ugly white column.  Depending on the
>> dimensions of the thumbnail, sometimes a row of white pixels will be at the
>> bottom instead of a column on the right.
>>
>> That site is using prestashop shopping cart software.
>>
>> As you can see, those white columns can be such a nuisance on a dark
>> background!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks for looking :) -Joe
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Jason Young <[email protected]<mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    Just to chime in here.. I do realize this is the third message
>>    you've posted without any answer, but unfortunately you haven't
>>    given anyone a thing to go on.
>>
>>    I see Pierre replied to your first message in July, asking you to
>>    show the original and 'ugly thumbnail' versions, which was never
>>    provided.
>>
>>    Likely, we would also need what code you're using to generate
>>    these - creating thumbnails - which are essentially resized
>>    (resampled) versions of the image - is a fairly common task, not a
>>    lot of questions about that here, so it's something the code
>>    you're using is doing.
>>
>>    Let us know :)
>>    -Jason
>>
>>
>>    Joe Pea wrote:
>>
>>        Does anyone besides me get ugly white pixels when thumbnails
>>        are created? I
>>        wanna fix this!
>>
>>
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