> > > On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:57 am, Markus Fischer wrote: > >> I'm searching for a high quality image resizing facility to be used > >> within PHP in an Unix/Linux environment. > >> > >> Probably everyone will now answer: imagecopyresampled() > >> > >> However, the quality of that functionality doesn't match the > >> expectations of our designers. I've done my tests with > PHP4 and GD > >> lib > >> 2.0.33 and everything produces with them got rejected so far. I was > >> also > >> going through the comments on php.net regarding self-written > >> Bicubical > >> algorithm functions, yet their outcome didn't match. > >> > >> My next step was to try ImageMagick. The quality is much > better when > >> using the 'mogrify' tool from this package, yet not good enough > >> for my > >> designers. > >> > >> Of course, their expectations are very high because of their daily > >> usage > >> of Photoshop. During my research I was running over > >> http://resizr.lord-lance.com/ which uses an commercial Windows > >> library. > >> Using a commercial package would be completely fine for > me, however I > >> just haven't found anything, thus this message. > >> > >> Whether the tool is a PHP library or just an ordinary Unix command > >> doesn't matter, as long as it is usable from within PHP. > > > > What are their expectations and what is the use for the final output? > > Also, what are they saying is wrong with the files? (I'm guessing > they are to 'fuzzy', that's the main gripe I have with GD. But it > doesn't stop me from using it to resize images for a web > page, unless > you're resizing large images with text down to a 'usable' size.) > > Are they just being 'designers' and nothing is going to be good > enough but photoshop? > > Maybe PHP/Unix isn't the way to go? > > Ed > Yea.. Go mac if you want the best for pics :) and its still unix :)))) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 7:44 AM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
