[WEB4LIB] RE: architectural slide collection conversion

[Thomas Dowling]

> Since I have to create a page for each file, I have decided to use
FrontPage
> 2000's autothumbnail function.  It doesn't create a true thumbnail but
just
> puts in the image with the size automatically generated.  I know you
purists
> out there will not like that but this will be restricted to just our
> students on our campus via our network.  Doing it this way will allow
faster
> loading of the full image as well.  It will already be in the cache.
>

Purism, shmurism.  The real problems are that: browsers do a pretty lousy
job of resampling images, compared to Paint Shop Pro, PhotoShop, et al.;
and you're sending enormous JPEG images over the user's network connection
just to display a thumbnail.

If Paint Shop really has no batch function, beg borrow or steal access to
PhotoShop 5+ for an hour or two.  I occasionally have to resize a set of
~1100 images; PhotoShop does the job in about 10 minutes.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu