Image Resizing?

I'm looking to resize an external image in a gadget. I'm
using Google
Pages as my gadget server. Do I need to relocate the gadget
to a server
running a PHP program or ASP Component that will do the
resizing, or is
there an XML trick I'm missing? Thanks.

-Darren


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Hello Darren,

You can size an image in html with the following:

<img src="images/test.jpg"
alt="test" name="test image"
id="testimage"
height="250" width="250">

where width and height specify the size in pixels.

If you want to preserve the aspect ratio of the source image
(i.e. the
width/height), you can specify either just the width or the
height and
the
image will be scaled preserving the aspect ratio of the
source image.
This will prevent stretching of the image.  For example:

<img src="images/test.jpg"
alt="test" name="test image"
id="testimage"
width="250">

Resizing "in the browser" via height/width tags
requires the full image
to be downloaded and also risks creating quality problems. 
If you plan
on having really large images (e.g. 1MB) you can preprocess
the images
manually with a product like Paint or PhotoShop.  If you
intend to
download a large number of images, you might want to
consider using a
freeware product like ImageMagick to preprocess the images
at a server.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Ralph


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