Probably a little OT as it's not a Fedora specific question, but this spills into the JNI area so I though I'd bounce this question of Fedora Java developers. Some of my Java server side apps feature image databases and there is a need to generate thumbnails for the images. Up to now I've been using the JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) API, but I was never happy with the results. The ImageMagick "convert" utility always produced much better results. After Googleing this topic I've come to the conclusion that despite all the image manipulation APIs in the Java standard, there is no way to produce a thumbnail of the same quality as a "convert -geometry 100x100" command. (Am I right in saying this?). So I've given up on a pure Java solution and I'm currently forking a process running convert for thumbnail generation. Apart from generating superior quality thumbnails, it also seems to be a more memory-friendly solution. I've also looked at the JMagick JNI wrapper for ImageMagic, but the simple fork technique has worked well so far so I'm not sure if there is any huge advantage to using the JNI path to ImageMagick. My question is: does anyone have a better solution for thumbnail generation? A platform neutral solution would be best, but I'm willing to assume a Linux server failing that. The Java VM must be in headless mode however as it's running on a server. Thanks, Joe. -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
