A lot of the work we do involves image resizing — taking JPEGs that users submit on a web form, for example, and making a thumbnail.
We’re currently using the convert application, part of ImageMagick, to do this under Linux, but we’re finding that it’s rather slow and processor-intensive.
Perhaps this is simply an inately slow and processor intensive process, but I’m wondering if others can suggest alternative Linux applications or utilities that we should look at.
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Can you do the work on OS X?
Can you do the work on OS X? Apple’s Quartz imaging routines are first-class - I doubt that anything better exists for simple scaling. Panther allows Python to script Quartz directly, so that would be my choice for production workflow.
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