Re: High quality image resizing

I'd be surprised if Imagemagick won't do the job. It has a terrific amount of tools; but there is a bit of a learning curve. Suggest visiting the IM forums and asking for help. Also, try resizing some images here http://studio.webbyland.com/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi I use php exec() for my work. Markus Fischer wrote:

Hi, I'm searching for a high quality image resizing facility to be used within PHP in an Unix/Linux environment. Probably everyone will now answer: imagecopyresampled() However, the quality of that functionality doesn't match the expectations of our designers. I've done my tests with PHP4 and GD lib 2.0.33 and everything produces with them got rejected so far. I was also going through the comments on php.net regarding self-written Bicubical algorithm functions, yet their outcome didn't match. My next step was to try ImageMagick. The quality is much better when using the 'mogrify' tool from this package, yet not good enough for my designers. Of course, their expectations are very high because of their daily usage of Photoshop. During my research I was running over http://resizr.lord-lance.com/ which uses an commercial Windows library. Using a commercial package would be completely fine for me, however I just haven't found anything, thus this message. Whether the tool is a PHP library or just an ordinary Unix command doesn't matter, as long as it is usable from within PHP. thanks for any hints, - Markus