RE: creating thumbnails from .BMP files
| From: | Robert | Date: | Thu, 29 May 2003 11:31:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: creating thumbnails from .BMP files | ||
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John W. Holmes wrote:
>> How do you create thumbnails from .BMP files? Is there a function
> like
>> there is for JPG (ImageJPEG)?
>
> Probably need to use an external program that understands that format
> and an exec() call.
>
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I use convert - its part of the ImageMagick package. You use exec to run it
and it will convert a lot of different file formats. Incidentally, you can
use MPlayer to do thumbnails from movies as well!
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