VarImage 2.4.0 Released! "VarImage" or "Variable Image" is a dynamic image manipulation product for Zope which allows images to be resized, filtered, and otherwise manipulated by a simple URL syntax, using a set of plugin "operators" which can be chained. Example: MyImage/th_500_200.bw.jpg With stock VarImage, this thumbnails the image to 500x200*, converts to black and white, and converts to JPEG format for publication. *This is the "foveal thumbnail" which crops as needed to acheive the desired aspect ratio while maximally preserving the "foveal region" of the image, which you can edit from the Zope Management page of VarImage objects. VarImage is a sub-project of the "Narya Project Incubator and Forum" project http://sourceforge.net/projects/narya-project http://narya.net and is distributable under the Gnu Public License. RELEASE 2.4: This is a much more polished version of VarImage, owing to a three-month stint without internet access (and therefore nothing to do on the computer but hack. ;-)). The only minus is that VarImage probably now requires Python 2.3 / Zope 2.7.0 now (but you were gonna upgrade by now anyway, right?). I say "probably" because I simply haven't tested it with earlier versions. Highlights: * Changed plugin profile to include an explicit "caller" reference (just like the "self" in Python object methods). This really simplifies writing plugins which need to access image properties (e.g. it could use information in a caption to control a plugin's behavior). * Referer blocking REALLY works now. Furthermore, there are several popular REFERER policies that are very easy to use VarImage for now. * Configuration files using .cfg format. * Security against DoS style attacks: it is now possible to set various kinds of limits on operator chaining and argument dimensions to avoid abusive demands on your server. (I've never heard of VarImage actually being exploited this way, but the possibility has been suggested, and these limits attempt to address that threat). SOURCEFORGE RELEASES PAGE: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=99506 FULL RELEASE NOTES and CHANGELOG: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=277890 ACTUAL DOWNLOAD SITE: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/narya-project/VarImage-2.4.0.tgz?download Thanks for your interest in VarImage, I hope you find it useful. Terry Hancock -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com