Re: image-dired, how does it do the thumbs?

[Allan]

Andreas Davour <anteRUN@updateLIKE.uu.HELLse> writes:

> I was working a bit on a Common Lisp program to manage my images, and
> found out that image-dired could do almost all I wanted, including
> tagging pictures.
>
> But, since I'd like to finish my program as an exercise I'm still a bit
> curious about how image-dired actually creates the thumbnails. Is it
> using an external program to do it, or is it done in elisp? I'm not very
> good as elisp, and am still learning Common Lisp, so I couldn't figure
> it out. 
>
> Pointers to how to scale pictures in lisp would be nice, if someone
> have them.
>
> So, how does image-dired work?
>
> /Andreas
There was a thread about image-dired and thumbs mode in gnu.emacs.gnus
in late December 2007. You may want to read it as it may answer some
of your questions.

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Allan