HTTP-404 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Good morning, well it's morning here i know it's possable to resize images with image::magick modules but the problem is that my isp doesn;t want to compile it for me =, so i ahve to use something else is there any perl module (GD?) that will make thumbnails for me withoutm being compiled inside of perl thnx a lot

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Re: Resize Image, not using Magick
by Jouke (Curate) on Jun 14, 2001 at 12:13 UTC
    Sure, you could use GD to do the resizing, but that would also require the installation of GD by your ISP. So I guess that won't help.

    If you're lucky, your ISP has ImageMagick itself installed, so you can use the systemcommand 'convert' to resize the images.

    What you would really want I guess is another ISP that would offer decent Perl installations ;-)

    Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'
    Using Perl to help the disabled: pVoice and pStory
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      do i have to compile GD module? if not it's possable to lod module from home dir thnx
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        You need at least the gdlib c-library to be installed and indeed, you have to compile the whole stuff...

        Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'
        Using Perl to help the disabled: pVoice and pStory
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