I've read with some interest the replies to other such questions. I've also had a look throught the "snippets" section but I've yet to find what I'm looking for.

I'm currently writing a Picture Gallery script and would like to be able to limit the size of the "full" image but need to find the image size from both .jpg & .gif files. Can this be done with just plain Perl (and standard Modules)?

Secondly, the Thumbnail pages are currently (and I liked this term so I'll use it myself) "Dumbnail", ie. I have used width and height sizes (50x50), however, this can cause the page to take ages to load on a 56k modem! It would be nice to be able to use ImageMagick or GD, but these aren't available on my server and are unlikely to be available on 95% of my target users servers. Is there any way within Perl to resize and rewrite image files (.jpg & .gif files only)?

Thanks!

In reply to Another Image Resize Question by floyd

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