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Main => Forum/Website Discussion => Topic started by: ARTIFACT on July 21, 2007, 12:44:35 am

Title: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jaggy)
Post by: ARTIFACT on July 21, 2007, 12:44:35 am
Example, this image is not large at all (333 x 500) ... and should be displayed without resizing it down.

The reason why I think the forum should allow images that are medium size is that it litterally destroys the images...

My plywood cuts look all messed up... :) they are not! they look like this only when I choose to display my images in the forum:

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/757718816_5a1cbd044c.jpg?v=0)
compare with opening it in a browser: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/757718816_5a1cbd044c.jpg?v=0

Thanks for considering tweaking the auto-resizer to allow for 500 pixel images (the default medium Flickr size)  :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: saint on July 21, 2007, 08:08:49 am
Huh. I'll look into that, but the image you posted is not being auto-resized for me?
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: BobA on July 21, 2007, 10:21:07 am
When I look at the image in the first message I can see the jaggies and the image is 319 x 480.   The flickr image is 333x500 and does not show any jaggies.  I am using Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: saint on July 21, 2007, 10:24:12 am
Huh. Not doing it for me. What's your screen resolution? I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.5 with a resolution of 1024 x 768.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: SirPeale on July 21, 2007, 10:35:25 am
You have code in your message forcing that image to a particular resolution.  I removed that code.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: BobA on July 21, 2007, 02:17:08 pm
My screen rez is 1680 x 1050

Tried it on another computer 1024x768 and it still displayed with jaggies in the message but not when the image was viewed directly.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: SirPeale on July 21, 2007, 07:54:15 pm
Okay, this is WEIRD.  I keep removing the code that constrains the image to that res.  It keeps coming back! 
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: saint on July 21, 2007, 09:31:10 pm
Even odder - the forum was set to allow a maximum picture size of 640x480... I just bumped it to 800x600. Let's see what affect that has. May need to punt this one to SirWoogie.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: saint on July 21, 2007, 09:32:34 pm
Ah! I understand now. It wasn't truncating the width from 500 to whatever. It was truncating the height to 480, and auto-sizing the width to match. So, I think I can tell it to have a maximum width with a much greater height.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: ARTIFACT on July 24, 2007, 09:24:30 am
Ah! I understand now. It wasn't truncating the width from 500 to whatever. It was truncating the height to 480, and auto-sizing the width to match. So, I think I can tell it to have a maximum width with a much greater height.


Thank you sir!

I *think* you fixed it ... I think I need to go edit out the width/height values on all my images now, for your new settings to kick in

:)
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jaggy)
Post by: AtomSmasher on July 30, 2007, 09:05:44 pm
On a similar note, does anyone have any idea why pictures posted with [img] tags might dissappear after a year or so?  I recently checked my old project thread (which I hadn't done in a few months) and almost all of the pictures have disappeared, and all of the posts show that they either haven't been edited or they haven't been edited since the day I originally posted them.  It's very odd.

And just to be clear, the images still exist on the server I put them on, it's the posts themselves that have changed and no longer have the [img] tags or the links to the pictures.

Heres a link to my old thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=42011.0
If you click my sig you can see how many pictures there are supposed to be.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: saint on July 30, 2007, 09:23:27 pm
We had a problem with the database about a year ago or so, and I think several messages got screwed up.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: AtomSmasher on July 30, 2007, 10:24:42 pm
We had a problem with the database about a year ago or so, and I think several messages got screwed up.
ah ok, I figured it was probably something like that.  It was just really weird how it was mainly just the images that got removed.
Title: Re: image auto-resizing should only be on with LARGE images (it makes images jag
Post by: saint on July 30, 2007, 11:12:54 pm
Yeah, it's happened to several threads. I originally thought people had moved the images or some such.