[Tutor] Image manipluation (On-the-fly thumbnail creation)

[dan06]

Patrick Sabin wrote:
> 
> When I needed thumbnails of my images, I created them using ImageMagick. 
>   ImageMagick is a very nice tool for editing images and since it is 
> called from the command line it is easy to invoke it from a programming 
> language. There are python-bindings for it, but I think they are not 
> very actively maintained and so I wouldn't use them.
> 
> Using PIL is another option and maybe more pythonic, but if you are 
> familiar with ImageMagick it might be a good alternative.
> 
> - Patrick
> 

My experiences with ImageMagick (IM) are limited, but what experiences I
have had have been good. The functionality of IM is superb, and that is the
impetus for wanting to use it over other softwares/libraries. Ultimately, I
want to use IM/Python to replicate something I did in GD/PHP. Using GD/PHP I
was able to create thumbnails on-demand that I could output directly to the
browser, rather than creating & saving thumbnails to the disk. Is this
possible with IM/Python?
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