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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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Date:
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Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:28:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeff Van Winden writes:
> 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?
> >
> > Of course, if more moderators get involved, this is a different issue.
> >
> > 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.
Ask Kevin Loch how he generates the Brickshelf thumbnails...
ROSCO
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