From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: image-dired, how does it do the thumbs? Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:29:49 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203055674 27905 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2008 06:07:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:07:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 15 07:08:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPtk5-0007Wo-Hq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:08:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPtjb-0004VG-NW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:07:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RsxatGwh1dOafhfPUXKL8/rqQeo= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 25 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156169 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:05:51 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51546 Archived-At: Andreas Davour 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 Sorry, please ignore my previous post. There was a thread in this news group by OP "winuser" starting on 18 Dec 2007 regarding image-dired which may answer some of your questions. I erroneously said the thread was in gnu.emacs.gnus in my previous post. -- Allan