Re: Imagemagick Displaying Images

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:19, 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 ;) > Okay, I'll admit it. I didn't STFW. I believe that if I make a seperate script to just display the images, and then display them all with <img src='show_image.php?id=blah'>. Of course this is just theory until I try it, but I'm pretty sure this is on the right path. Thanks for listening anyway, and maybe this will help someone else ;) -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099