Gee thanks. Did you perhaps consider that the code is there for a reason?

Uploading megabyte pics in monster sizes is pretty unfriendly to the large portion of users on dialup and full sizing the pics really messes it up for folks who don't use 23" studio monitors like myself on this laptop.

T

I try and keep all pictures under 50K if possible. The problem I have with automatic resizing is it can really destroy circuit diagrams. For the most part GIF immages work great for diagrams and other low color resolution immages.

Automatic Jpeg compression of bitmap immages would be a good thing.

Maybe if you could trigger the software based on file size and resolution, rather than just on resolution alone.

Perhaps if you treated all pictures the same and made thumbnails out of them, then the reader could expand them if desired.

My machine is on a very small diameter hose here (26,400 if I'm lucky), and I can appreciate any effort to control the immage loading times.

-Bill-

if this server is on a linux box (or some other *nix) then you could try the folloing 'postprocess' script to auto-resize uploaded images:

#!/bin/sh
djpeg $2 | pnmscale -xres=480 | cjpeg > out.tmp.jpg
mv out.tmp.jpg $2

chmod 755 on the file and stick it somewhere where the webserver can see it in it's path or provide an absolute path. Depending on how things are set up the djpeg, pnmscale and cjpeg commands could need absolute paths as well.

that should do it.

pnmscale is part of Jeff Postkanzers' 'pbm' package and is pre-installed on many machines, djpeg and cjpeg are standard tools, but if you don't have them simply download jpeg-6, make and make install and they will be placed in /usr/local/bin

regards