Re: Perl, VBA, HTML, Excel, FireFox, Internet Exploder and 35mm photography

Bill Gates is doing something very clever when handling graphics. IE is materially more memory efficient than FireFox, while the best solution of all remains Excel. This should not be.

Bill is probably cheating with Thumbs.db and keeping its own image format libraries in memory

I would probably resort to scripting ImageMagick convert, easier than fiddling with GD...

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Re^2: Perl, VBA, HTML, Excel, FireFox, Internet Exploder and 35mm photography by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 22, 2010 at 15:07 UTC
At one time, I also looked at cheating using `Thumbs.db` for quickly displaying image thumbnails. I found that it seems to be basically (likely) an OLE directory/stream containing JPEG encoded images. In the end, I had too many images for which Windows did not helpfully prepare thumbnails to make this approach workable.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl, VBA, HTML, Excel, FireFox, Internet Exploder and 35mm photography by davies (Monsignor) on Dec 22, 2010 at 15:11 UTC
My initial plan was to try to extract the JPG files in thumbs.db, but (a) we couldn't see (quickly) how to do it, (b) I have my system set up so that I don't get thumbs.db created automatically, so the code would have to persuade Losedows to create it before we ran it. Excel still wins even on directories that don't have thumbs.db. I should have mentioned this sidetrack in my original meditation. Regards, John	[reply]
Re^2: Perl, VBA, HTML, Excel, FireFox, Internet Exploder and 35mm photography by juster (Friar) on Dec 26, 2010 at 21:06 UTC
I thought I should mention that ImageMagick has an operation called Montage that can accomplish this easily.	[reply]