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Re: Ebl_batchupload
TheEric, quick question for you….
Your plug-in is now working flawlessly for me but the images and the thumbnails look pretty bad when I import them. They look like they are resized out of proportion one way or the other. Are there some tips for making them look better? I tried playing with the resize defaults in the code but they never resize to that default.
What would you recommend (if anything!)?
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Can I see an example? The plugin SHOULD be resizing them, proportionally.
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arengula – in the top lefthand corner of the flash file, does it still say “undefined”? I realize now that you’re getting a security error, where it’s not allowing uploads because it’s unable to authenticate you as a authorized user, and thereby rejecting your uploads.
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Re: Ebl_batchupload
TheEric,
Go to this link and check out the “Projects” section. Take a look at the Thumbnails there and you can see that they look somewhat grainy. They do not look this way when I resize them locally on my machine to the same specs., only once they are inside of TXP using the plug-in. When I do it locally (using Photoshop) or whatever, they look really good and clear. This could possibly be a problem with TXP and not your plug-in.
Last edited by DigitalRealm (2006-11-17 17:51:04)
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Ah! I see.
Yes, Andreas recently let me know that the thumbnails weren’t as “pretty” as they could be. This is something I’m working on for the next release, wherein, a quality setting will be adjustable.
Hopefully I can get done today… if not, most likely Tuesday
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#96 2006-11-17 18:23:47
- aba
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Re: Ebl_batchupload
it’s not textpatterns fault, Eric wanted to avoid timouts when resizing images and the result is a very fast but not very pretty resizing.
One solutions: find (in function ebl_goresize):
imagecopyresized($thumb, $srcimage, 0,0,0,0, $newwidth, $newheight, $width, $height);
change to
imagecopyresampled($thumb, $srcimage, 0,0,0,0, $newwidth, $newheight, $width, $height);
Beware: it takes more time to resize the images – my experience from writing aba_import_images is that some servers choke if you want to import a whole bunch of images at once. I’m not sure whether ebl_batch_upload does a http request for every image from the flash plugin (that would avoid that timeout problem).
Eric told me that he plans to change the thumbnailing to a better way qualitywise and judging from the plugin so far it will probably kick ass, in the meantime you might use the above explained workaround.
Ups… wrote too long… ;)
Last edited by aba (2006-11-17 18:24:33)
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Andreas,
Your workaround works mighty well, there is a huge difference in quality now. Thanks a lot for the help and the quick fix until TheEric can work out a solution in the new version.
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DigitalRealm – Have you noticed a significant difference in speed?
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It actually seemed to go a little faster with the workaround in place. There could be several other factors dictating that though.
Last edited by DigitalRealm (2006-11-17 19:52:42)
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#100 2006-11-17 21:23:17
- aba
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Re: Ebl_batchupload
DigitalRealm wrote:
It actually seemed to go a little faster with the workaround in place. There could be several other factors dictating that though.
its about 4 times slower (my test image with 350kb will we resized in about 0.2 seconds, the resampling is about 0.8 seconds including reading and writing the image file itself) – but I consider the better quality worth the loss of time.
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#101 2006-11-17 23:22:05
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I just tried 10 images all at 170kb each, took right at 30 seconds to do all 10. That includes the resize and the thumbnail.
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#102 2006-11-19 01:30:40
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My site will be looking a bit .. gruesome ..as I progress through my live update to my updated design / layout.
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#103 2006-11-19 10:50:43
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Whats happened to the link Eric? Seems to have disappeared.
I’d like to see this……
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#104 2006-11-19 17:13:18
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My plugins can be downloaded from here – pardon the look right now. just uploaded the basic template last night.
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#105 2006-11-21 10:11:30
Re: Ebl_batchupload
TheEric wrote:
arengula – in the top lefthand corner of the flash file, does it still say “undefined”? I realize now that you’re getting a security error, where it’s not allowing uploads because it’s unable to authenticate you as a authorized user, and thereby rejecting your uploads.
@TheEric – sorry it took so long to reply. Yes I’ve still got “undefined” in the top left corner. Is there a workaround for this?
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