From: Raymond Brigleb <ray@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T01:11:14+09:00
Subject: RMagick Thumbnailing Question

Hello: this is my first post, so a brief introduction. My name is  
Ray, I live in Portland, I'm a fresh (circa 2005) Ruby convert, and I  
work with needmoredesigns.com. Hello!

I'm writing an application (in Rails) that uses much of RMagick's...  
magic. Thumbnails are a big part of the job, but I'm having  
difficulty getting my head around the Geometry (?) class... in a  
sense, what I'm trying to do is create thumbnails that "fill the  
space" rather than are "restricted to the space" they're in. Meaning,  
if I say I want 100x100 thumbnails, I want it to first resize, then  
actually crop a 300x100 image to the middle 100 pixels. Make any  
sense? I just think they'll look better that way.

My question is, has anybody done this? I've seen it in Backpack  
(backpackhq.com) which I'm just guessing uses this library. I'm  
wondering if anybody has any helpful tips or perhaps some code they  
could share with me.

Thanks and well met,
Raymond