Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:

> Brian Rose <saider@gate.net>  wrote:
>  > Does anyone know of an image thumbnail generator? It's running on a 
>  > server, so I do not have many libraries installed.
>  > 
>  > What I need it to do is to read in an image file and generate a 
>  > thumbnail image file in the same format. It needs to take all arguments 
>  > on the command line because it will be embedded in a script.
>  > 
>  > Something like this..
>  > $ thumbs file.jpg > thumbnail.jpg
>  > 
>  > Anyone know of a package like this?
> 
> just use imagemagick or something.
> 
> But if what you're trying to do is organize digital photos on your website,
> then I heartily recommend 'photoframe'.  A php script that just does everything
> for you.
> 
> My wife takes hundreds of pictures of our baby every month and I have to
> put them up on a website for grandparents every couple of days or else my
> phone rings.  With photoframe, it's just an 'scp' and the rest is automatic.

Another neat package if you are already running Apache is gallery.
Neat PHP package to display digital pictures, automatically creates
thumbs, etc.

-russ