Re^3: creating thumbnails

Hi! is there a way to read / get thumbnails from jpegs? I think exif thumbnail, because loading a large image may take a lot of time. and if there is already a thumbnail stored in the exif then it might greatly lessen the time of create a thumbnail.

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Re^4: creating thumbnails by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 21, 2009 at 16:48 UTC
good idea..... start working on it... you have a genius level idea there P.S. my further ideas on this is that the thumbnails can be packaged separately in a simple single file database, like with Storable for example..... that way you only need to create the thumbs once, and you can include them as part of a resource file with the app. As far as including the thumbnails in the exif info, maybe there is enough room in there, but it almost seems like you may as well develope your own file format..... like jpegs that allow information riders to be concated onto the end of the image, before the EOF..... maybe separated by a few chr 01's,.... maybe you could include a sound bite too... :-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku	[reply]

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Re^4: creating thumbnails
by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 21, 2009 at 16:48 UTC

P.S. my further ideas on this is that the thumbnails can be packaged separately in a simple single file database, like with Storable for example..... that way you only need to create the thumbs once, and you can include them as part of a resource file with the app.

As far as including the thumbnails in the exif info, maybe there is enough room in there, but it almost seems like you may as well develope your own file format..... like jpegs that allow information riders to be concated onto the end of the image, before the EOF..... maybe separated by a few chr 01's,.... maybe you could include a sound bite too... :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku

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