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On-Demand thumbnail creation with django and nginx

I want to generate thumbnails of images on the fly. My site is built with django and deployed using nginx which serves all the static content and communicates with django/apache using reverse proxy. Right now, for every image in my site, I generate all required sizes of thumbnails on-hand and deliver them when required. The problem is...

How to attach a site with its thumbnail to a Drupal node?

Do you have any Drupal module (or other solution) to implement a feature similiar to Facebook's Share a Link? To be precise: you paste a link site's preview is generated title short excerpt and a thumbnail of one of the site's images ...

I want to create multiple thumbnails using GD library in php, which is better creating on the fly or creating physical one?

Dear all, I want to create multiple thumbnails using GD library in php, and I already have a script to do this, the question is what is better for me .. is it better to create thumbnail on the fly? or create a physical file on my server each time I want a thumb?? and Why? Please, consider time consuming and storage capacity and other d...

How to display a thumb image or first frame from a MP4 file using Delphi 7

Hi, I need to display a thumbnail preview of a folder full of MP4 files. So, is there a Delphi 7 component which extract a thumbnail image from MP4 files (if MP4 does contain a thumbnail image), or is there a Delphi 7 component which can extract the 1st frame from a MP4 file ? I need to extract it so I can save it to a .jpg or .png f...

addField type image and thumbnail path

Hello, I have a Magento webshop and just created a custom module with the extension (Modulecreator). This module comes with a standard admin interface that can handle file uploads. I found out that if you want to show thumbnails you can use the 'image' field type (addField('myfield', 'image')) instead of the 'file' type field. But now ...

Problem with thumbnails after newly added - PHP on-the-fly method

Hey again... to those that may have read my previous question that got solved a couple minutes ago >.< The on-the-fly php script works perfectly, but when I went to upload new images into a gallery which I made myself, the images are resized to 150 x 150 for what I wanted... however, when it comes to new images being added it is all bla...

How to preview any files inside a Java application ?

I'm using a JTree to browse the content of a folder and I want that when a user click on a file, the software shows a preview of it (a screenshot of its first page). The files are mostly Office documents and PDF. I manage to do it for PDF file using a module downloaded from Sun, but I'd like to know if there is a way to do it using any...

Is there any way to use imagegrabwindow() with Firefox or Chrome?

I'm trying to generate website thumbnails programatically in PHP. To do this, I'm using imagegrabwindow() with a COM object: $browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application"); $handle = $browser->HWND; $browser->Visible = true; $browser->Navigate($pre.$URL); while ($browser->Busy) { com_message_pump(4000); } $img = imagegrabwindow($h...

How do you add flair to three20's Thumbnail View for iPhone?

Hi. You know three20's Thumbnail View? We're building an iPhone app and want to use that view, except each thumbnail will be a user's profile picture. Then, based on certain flags downloaded as JSON from the server, we want to overlay a green dot on the bottom left of each thumbnail (or give each thumbnail a blue border) where the corres...

How can I access windows file preview icons from my WPF application

I got a bunch of Pictures and Videos in a directory and needs to be displayed in the WPF application, I am thinking about displaying the Win7 Large Icon itself as the preview image. Because that will save me the work of grabbing an appropriate frame from the video file since Windows is doing that job pretty well already. Any code snippet...

How do I generate thumbnails of time increments in a video streaming from a URL for the iPhone?

I am able to stream a video from a URL, but I can't quite figure out how to generate thumbnail images of this streaming video at a certain time increment and allow the viewer to skip ahead by touching the thumbnails. I would also need to be able to display the thumbnails when the screen is touched during the video. Any help would be gr...

Where are the thumbnails stored on Nokia phones for captured images?

The following link shows the list of directories where the thumbnails are stored in the respective phones: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Thumbnail_path_for_3rd_edition_devices but the phones given on the link are limited. Does it mean that, for other phones (such as N86, Expressmusic etc), I do not have access to thumbnails? I t...

Efficient thumbnail creation in iPhone

What's the most efficient way to create a thumbnail from an arbitrary web image in iPhone? ...

Zend Image upload and generating thumbnails on fly

Hi there, I am a php programmer, but new to zend framework. I want to upload image, create medium and small(thubmnail) image on fly, I passed a couple of hours searching for a php library [ compatible with zend ] that can make my tasks easy. I dont want to write the code that already exists. thanks for any help. I want also to know w...

PHP: imagepng is creating inordinately large files

I'm using a simple thumbnailing script I wrote and it's pretty standard: $imgbuffer = imagecreatetruecolor($thumbwidth, $thumbheight); switch($type) { case 1: $image = imagecreatefromgif($img); break; case 2: $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($img); break; case 3: $image = imagecreatefrompng($img); break; case 6: $image = imagecreate...

Thumbnail Grid Control like Windows Explorer

I'm looking for a free WPF control that can show a gird like windows explorer's thumbnail new, rows of images with some info under each thumb, it would be added benefit if it could be switched to detail and list view too but for now the thumbnail view is the most important, I'm not that familiar with WPF's built-in controls so this migh...

Codeigniter - Create Thumbnail Woes

I am trying to create a thumbnail of a watermarked image, but can't get it to work. The script always seems to resize the original watermarked image without making the thumbnail.. anyway to accomplish both? ...

"Featured Image" or "Thumbnail" in Wordpress 3?

What's the difference between a featured image and thumbnail, and why would you use one over the other? ...

Is there a jQuery plug-in that makes thumbnails of an image dynamically?

Does anyone know of a jquery plugin that can make a thumbnail of an image hosted at another site (Flickr/Picasa/SmugMug/etc.)? I was trying to use Galleria, but didn't like it very much. It had the capability to make thumbnails dynamically, so I know it is possible. What I'd like to do is use a Colorbox slideshow for my gallery, but I'...

Firefox 3.6 crashes when trying to display a thumbnail

I use Uploadify to upload multiple pictures to server. I want to display pictures thumbnails before the pictures are actually uploaded to the server, based on this. I use Firefox 3.6.6. Here is how I thought to do this: $('#fileInput').uploadify({ ... onSelect: function(event, queueID, fileObj) { var img = document.cre...