[mir-coders] jmagick and mir: cropping and resizing

[patrick]

Hey,

Please see below:

Quoting pietro indymedia.org:

> there is JMagick which is an open source Java interface of ImageMagick 
> as themselves define it.

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/mir-coders/2005-January/0118-h5.html

In nyc we are finally moving to mir, and design-wise are planning to 
replace the traditional center-column thumbnails with 1 or 2 large images.

For reasons similar to the motivation for auto-generation of thumbnails, 
it'd be great to have a crude interactive image editor, so that imc 
editors without an indepth tech skillset could crop and resize images 
online.  That is, crop a center-column image from a larger photo from the 
newswire, or uploaded from their desktop, etc. (i.e., to fit the html 
template, say at 200x300px).

Here's a crude example from the ImageMagick site (see PerlMagick):

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php

...and a more advanced php demo here:

http://www.zhuo.org/htmlarea/

...this one works nicely, but it's p2p -- just linking it cause I like it 
(great for remote napkin sketches):

http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/

I'm thinking we'd only need crop and resize, but it would be nice to have 
a standalone online widget that we could share elsewhere.

If anyone has any thoughts or background on this, would love to hear from 
you.  In the meantime I will try to organize some java folks here locally 
to attempt build it (over the next few months).


--Patrick