in reply to Trying to learn how to do thumbnails in perl

I'd recommend merlyn's page here for some good information on that challenge, although I don't know if those tools also run on NT.

BTW, what errors are you getting? That kind of information would probably be useful if you're expecting mere mortals to help you with your problem. :)

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Re: Re: trying to learn more perl
by wageslave (Novice) on Apr 12, 2002 at 05:00 UTC
    its a nt error basically a window pops up and says an aplication errors has occured where it promptly kills perl the bottom of the window it say exception access error at some memory location
      In my experience, ImageMagick works very well on NT, but it has some quirks, especially when using it in perl. So, while you might have other options, here are some questions that may or may not help you... :)
      1. Can you do the command directly to the ImageMagick binary (convert.exe) and make it work? If not, download and install again.
      2. Are you using the perl module Image::Magick? Don't. In my experience, it works horribly, if at all, at least in a Windows environment. Try completing step one, then use system calls instead or qx//.
      3. Are you using complete paths? ImageMagick is pretty picky about this, I seem t recall - both complete path to the binary itself and the images to operate on is (or was) needed, I think.

      All in all, IM is a pretty good tool for scripting image conversions and stuff, and it can do most things you need, so maybe you want to give it another shot. On the other hand, I'm sure there are lots of as good or better alternatives... just haven't used them myself. :)

      I also realize that this is a pretty non-perl answer, and that it is even maybe a bad answer considering you wanted to learn more perl, but one single tool is seldom enough, you need a good solid toolbox with compatible tools to do some real work. :)


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Re: Re: trying to learn more perl
by wageslave (Novice) on Apr 13, 2002 at 02:02 UTC
    thanks for all the help I figured out what the prob was, it was an incorrect filehandle, guess what happened was I cut pasted a snippet of someone else code and forgot about the file handle, when I ran the code theres was an excpetion error which basically killed perl, I figured it was the image::magick module that was cause the prob oh well guess a good nights sleep can do wonders for spotting bugs