[racket] Thumbnailing

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Paulo J. Matos <paulo at matos-sorge.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/11 15:26, Stephen Bloch wrote:
>>>
>>> I am wondering if there's anything in place already to create an image
>>> thumbnail. This is basically resizing an image.
>>
>> In the student graphics libraries (2htdp/image and picturing-programs,
>> which is derived from 2htdp/image), you can use "scale" to scale an image up
>> or down by a specified ratio.  For that matter, if you want to scale the x
>> and y dimensions differently, you can use "scale/xy".  I believe this is a
>> constant-time operation; the number-crunching comes later, when you render
>> it to a bitmap for display on the screen or saving to a PNG file.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, I can't seem find a way to open image files (jpeg, png, bmp, etc).
> Is there anything like that in Racket currently? Or do we need ffi to
> libjpeg, libpng, etc.?

See the various options to `load-bitmap' here:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/draw/bitmap_.html?q=png#%28meth._%28%28%28lib._racket/draw..rkt%29._bitmap~25%29._load-file%29%29

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sam th
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