[Zope] Generating thumbnails on the fly using PIL

[Robert Rottermann]

If it is not for the learning how to do it you can use Ron Bicker's Photo
product which does what you want and then some.

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pieter Claerhout" <Pieter_Claerhout@CreoScitex.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:20 PM
Subject: [Zope] Generating thumbnails on the fly using PIL


> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to make an external method that creates a thumbnail of an image
> on the fly. I want to give it the url of the image and return the image
> data. It should look something like:
>
> <dtml-var "MakeThumb('/path/to/my/image.jpg', (64, 32))">
>
> I figured out already that I should use a StringIO object to store the raw
> image data in, so that PIL has an object to work with. The only two things
> I'm struggling with still are:
>
> - How do you get the data of the image in the StringIO object?
> - How do you return the thumbnail image?
>
> Hope that somebody can help with this.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Pieter
>
>
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