Re: resizing JPEGs --- SOLVED
- From: walton.paul@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:57:58 -0000
On Jul 31, 6:26 pm, spooky...@xxxxxxx wrote:
In article <CaMri.13754$Od7.11...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roy Terry <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How did xphoto.dll not meet your needs?
http://wiki.tcl.tk/11924
Quite possibly because, until I just now read your post, I'd never
heard of it. :-) Still, it's working now, and it's a lot simpler
to ask a Unix user to have netpbm (which, even from its pbmplus days,
has always seemed to be a very popular package that's likely ALREADY
installed than it is to ask them to patch/rebuild/reinstall their
Tk 8.[2-4].x.
I don't mean to sound negative towards xphoto.dll and the work that
you've put into it...really, I don't. If it were built as an
external shared library (dll for windows boxes, libxphoto.so for
Unix systems, etc.), I'd probably switch to it, but I'm trying to
consider my users, who range from A) experienced Unix types who,
when they have ideas for new features, learn Tcl/Tk, code it, and
then send me a patch file (yes, a real patch file) to B) windows
users who send me a plea for help every time the NHC/TPC ftp server[1]
tells them in its motd that it's a US Gov't system and that misuse
of the system is a federal offense (ok, I've only gotten a few of
those from the same user, but I've gotten a *LOT* of those from
different users)....
Later,
--jim
[1] I originally wrote JStrack for Unix, designing it to get its data
from incoming e-mail via the WX-ATLAN list, procmail scripts that
pipe NHC/TPC products to filt.tcl, and filt.tcl and read_fc.tcl,
which "read" the NHC/TPC products and extract the data to feed it
to JStrack (whether it's running or not...if it's not running, if
the user isn't logged in, whatever...the changes are there when
the user runs JStrack again.
But, since JStrack is all Tcl/Tk (with the ability to use external
libraries/binaries for added capabilities), I wanted to get it
running under windows, too, so I could support that whole big
group of users as well.
Unfortunately, unless something's changed recently and I don't
know about it, procmail doesn't run on windows[2], nor is there
any portable (i.e., doesn't matter what e-mail program the user
is using) solution, so using WX-ATLAN for updates there is out.
Thus, ftp from the NHC/TPC's ftp site.... It's not as reliable
(when the ftp server gets too busy, it drops connects fairly
regularly), but it basically works, as long as the user connects
again until JStrack tells them it's finished.
[2] { set joking_around_sarcastic_mode ON
I think it might have something to do with handling every possible
MTA/MDA/MUA combo program out there, since there doesn't appear to be
a way to drop in a replacement for the MDA portion of the programs....
}
I've asked various self-proclaimed "experts" (they had one of those
bits of paper that M$ gave them), after they claimed that *ANYTHING*
that could be done on Unix, they could do better and more easily on
windows (from that, they've just said that they *DO* know how to do
this).... Sadly, however, the best response these "experts" could
give was "you can't do that...but why would you want to?" (This,
after I'd just explained why along with my question---to get procmail
and filt.tcl up and running....) I've yet to get a valid answer to
that question from these "experts". :-)
--
73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running FreeBSD 6.1 >
spooky...@xxxxxxx || j.gra...@xxxxxxxx ICBM/Hurr.: 30.39735N 86.60439W
No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it
out, you didn't want to know anyway... --Larry Wall
I don't know if this was mentioned yet, but you could just [exec] the
ImageMagick .exe's.
.
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