[Info-vax] simple image processing

[chrisj.doran%proemail.co.uk at gtempaccount.com]

On Aug 13, 10:20 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> In the (somewhat) old days when I used to photograph with film, I would
> ask for a CD with JPEG files.  Usually, these were in one directory and
> thumbnails were in another.  Now, with a digital camera, I of course
> still have the JPEGs (now of higher quality, of course), but by default
> don't get the thumbnails.  (I still print out almost all pictures, which
> I do at a photo shop since it is much easier and also cheaper.  Getting
> everything on a CD costs just peanuts and is easier than burning one at
> home.)  Thus, I'm looking for a quick and easy method to generate
> thumbnails.  The idea is to have a web page of thumbnails with links to
> the full-resolution pictures.  (Using HTML to shrink the image is not an
> option since the whole image still gets loaded, which takes too much
> time.)
>
> Is there any tool on VMS which can do this?  I realise that I could do
> it on a non-VMS system, but a) I would have to learn an application
> first, so I might as well learn it on VMS if possible and b) what I
> really want is something I can script, rather than doing it
> interactively in some GUI (presumably that is more likely to be found on
> VMS).
>
> Now, I am using CSWB 1.7-11 on ALPHA.  It's fine for most things, but
> with JPEG files it doesn't automatically scale the picture to fit the
> screen, but rather displays just part of it (at least for a file with a
> large number of pixels).  Is there any way to change this?  Is there a
> newer version of CSWB?  If so, does it do the automatic scaling.  What
> about Mosaic on ALPHA?  (I have it on VAX, but a) not the latest version
> and b) I don't have any VAXen in my cluster anymore.)

PPWIZARD says it automates thumbnailing, but I haven't tried it, nor
have I used the VMS PPWIZARD: http://dennisbareis.com/ppwizard/links.htm

Chris