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Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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lugnet.inst, lugnet.general
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Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:09:00 GMT
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In lugnet.inst, Jake McKee writes:
> In lugnet.inst, Jerry Sievert writes:
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> > how about hosting the thumbnails? each thumbnail should be in the range of
> > 2.5kb, so even at 1000 instructions, you'd be under 5mb.
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> I have thought about that a lot. The problem is that it increases the amount
> of time I have to moderate... meaning, what if someone submits an image that
> is 4mb? Do I reject it and then go back and forth via email to explain why?
> Or do I open photoshop and fix it? What if I don't get what they were hoping
> for? Do I have to go back and forth via email to explain?
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> Of course, if more moderators get involved, this is a different issue.
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> But what other possibilities are there to solve this? Anyone?
How about resizing the images via code. i.e. look at the dimensions of the
image and scale it down to meet your requirements. I guess it depends on the
type of code you are working in, I know that Java has something, (I believe
its part of the java.awt class) but I have not used it myself.
Just my 2 cents (1.34 cents US)
Jeff VW
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> Jake
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> Jake McKee
> LEGO Enthusiast
> Webmaster - B.I. Portal
> http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions
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