Okay I'm using Image::Magick to resize some images to thumbnails. I thought about using GD but I will probably be adding functions to this app later that GD can't do.

Anyway reading the original, resizing and writing the new image to a new file all works just fine but after I've done this I can no longer write to STDOUT and subsequently the webserver throws a 500 error because it doesn't receive any output from the program.

I tried selecting STDOUT ( select STDOUT) but it still didn't work. However when I did:

print STDOUT "Output blah blah ...";

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It works but I feel its kind of ugly. Any ideas on being able to default back to STDOUT (am I doing something wrong?).

Here's the code in question for those interested.


my $image = Image::Magick->new;
open(IMAGE,"$path") or upload_failed("Couldn't open $path for reading"
+,$path);
$image->Read(file=>*IMAGE);
close(IMAGE);
            $image->Resize(width=>$conf->thumb_width,height=>$conf->th
+umb_height);
open(THUMB,">$thumbs/thumb_$filename") or upload_failed("Couldn't open
+ thumbnail file: $!",$path);       $image->Write(file=>*THUMB,filenam
+e=>"$thumbs/thumb_$filename");
close(THUMB);

# no longer can write to STDOUT from this point on. works if # I delet
+e the line $image->Write ....

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Chris

Some clever or funny quote here.

In reply to Weird problems with Image::Magick and STDOUT by cfreak

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