"On the fly" images

[Chuck Anderson]

I have a web page/script that displays image files residing on disk. I
do not know what size they are (in pixels), so I want to be able to
resize an image if it is bigger than the limit I allow (say, 900 pixels
wide).

I want to create the resized image in memory and serve it directly,
without saving the resized image to disk (they are only temporary, and
I'd rather not worry about cleanup). I know how to use some of the GD
library and I also know how to use ImageMagick. I would prefer to use
ImageMagick, as it has a good quality Unsharp mask (usually needed after
a resize/resample of an image), but I don't know if it is capable of
doing this (creating the image in memory so I can serve it directly
without saving it to disk first).

Using the GD library, I need only use a header to set the MIME type and
then imagejpeg to serve the resized image directly from memory.

Does anyone happen to know if I can I accomplish the same thing with
ImageMagick?

Also, ... does anyone know of any good tutorials or scripts for
on-the-fly image editing (ImageMagick or GD lib)? (This is a pretty
good one: <http://codewalkers.com/tutorials/42/1.html Any others? Any
that use ImageMagick?)

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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: &quot;On the fly&quot; images

Message-ID: <JImdnYfCIOJdBT HZnZ2dnUVZ_u6dn Z2d@comcast.com from Chuck
Anderson contained the following:

>I want to create the resized image in memory and serve it directly,
>without saving the resized image to disk (they are only temporary, and
>I'd rather not worry about cleanup). I know how to use some of the GD
>library and I also know how to use ImageMagick. I would prefer to use
>ImageMagick, as it has a good quality Unsharp mask (usually needed after
>a resize/resample of an image), but I don't know if it is capable of
>doing this (creating the image in memory so I can serve it directly
>without saving it to disk first).

If you are going to use the image again, or someone else might, it is
better to save it. There are various custom unsharp mask functions
available for the GD functions if you don't have Imagemagick available
but tend to be a bit slow.

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[David]

Re: &quot;On the fly&quot; images

Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <JImdnYfCIOJdBT HZnZ2dnUVZ_u6dn Z2d@comcast.com from Chuck
Anderson contained the following:
>

>I want to create the resized image in memory and serve it directly,
>without saving the resized image to disk (they are only temporary, and
>I'd rather not worry about cleanup). I know how to use some of the GD
>library and I also know how to use ImageMagick. I would prefer to use
>ImageMagick, as it has a good quality Unsharp mask (usually needed after
>a resize/resample of an image), but I don't know if it is capable of
>doing this (creating the image in memory so I can serve it directly
>without saving it to disk first).

>
If you are going to use the image again, or someone else might, it is
better to save it. There are various custom unsharp mask functions
available for the GD functions if you don't have Imagemagick available
but tend to be a bit slow.
>

There is a cgi script called gd-imager that allows you to resize your
images by passing the height and width on the url. You can find the
program here

http://www.rejump.com/gd_imager/