Re: Imagemagick Displaying Images

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:24, Ray Hauge wrote: > 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] - For further clarification, here is how I got it to actually convert, but still display the output to standard out: $img = shell_exec("convert -resize 800x600 /tmp/file.pdf[0] jpg:-"); header("Content-type: image/jpg"); print($img); Now you can dream up any sort of ideas with GET variables to define which image you want. Later, Ray