Ray Hauge wrote:
I have an application that shows thumnails of PDF files in different
directories. I have so far decided that I can use "convert" from imagemagick
to get a .jpg, .png, .gif, etc. to display as the image. The problem I'm
running into is that I don't want to save these thumbnails. Instead I just
want to take the binary data and display an image with it. I figure that
it's possible since you can store binary data in a database and display it
that way.
an example of what I'm doing is:
convert -resize 800x600 AR-M455N_20060420_130446.pdf[0] -
The '-' makes it display the contents of the image to stdout. I want to
caputre that binary data and somehow display the images inline with the
website. Is this possible, or am I living in a dream world ;)
Thanks,
Hope someone provides a good answer.
I had a similar problem and ended up by writing the image to a temporary file. The temp file must retrained long enough
to insure the client has received it. So, I made a function that checks all temp file's filemtime() compared with the
current time and unlink any that exceed x. This function can be a cronjob or simply the page that creates the temp
file, assuming it gets called frequently.
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