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I've written a PERL script to thumbnail pictures for me (auto cropping so I can make all the thumbs the same size without distortion) usin PerlMagick. It works great except for one bizarre problem: when I run the program on this one specific set of pictures I have, the thumbs are huge (filesize). I'm talking 35-45K for thumbnails that are 95x115. So far, I have run the program on three sets of content and only one does this. It doesn't matter if I adjust the quality, either. Quality = 75 or quality = 0, the thumbs are huge.

The script does this:
Calculate size for cropping
PerlMagick->Crop()
PerlMagick->Resize()
PerlMagick->Write()

I couldn't find any really good mailing lists for this question and since it's porn-related, I thought I'd ask here. I appreciate any help.

SpaceAce

take a look at nconvert

I've struggled with perlmagic also ..

Thanks, boldy, I'll look into that right away.

Anyone else have some suggestions in case this doesn't work?

SpaceAce

ya use convert .... just doing a project now actually where i need it, but if anyone can tell me how to stop the premature header errors from convert i'd owe ya.

btw, i dont use the perl modules for them, i just use system calls..

`convert origfile -geometry 75x75+0+0 thumbfile`;

mike

I didn't see the functions I wanted available from command-line convert which is why I went with PerlMagick. Also, I am thinking of adding thumbnailing capability to AVS Weasel, which also means PERL.

SpaceAce

Actually, there does seem to be more functions in this newer version I installed. Let's see if it makes smaller thumbnails.

[Later...]
The answer is "no". Still produces great big honkin' thumbnalils :(

SpaceAce

Mystery solved: it's embedded profile information. Just fire this up before saving the image:

$image->Profile(name=>"*");

SpaceAce

use php...its easy then