From: David Moreno <david@...>
Date: 2008-02-04T10:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Resizing pictures for file size

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:34 +0900, Tim Hunter wrote:
> J. Pablo Fernández wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm using rmagick but I'm open to other libraries if needed. I want to
> > resize an image, scale actually (mantaining the aspect ratio) so that
> > the
> > size of the file is lower than a certain amount of bytes. Any ideas
> > how to
> > do this?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > --
> > J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno@pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com)
> > 
> 
> I can't speak for other libraries, but this is not possible with 
> RMagick. This question comes up from time-to-time on the ImageMagick 
> forum but the answer is always "not possible" other than just by 
> trial-and-error.

What exactly is not possible? Resize according to the certain amount of
bytes after the resize?

-- 
David.
 First time I had read the Bible/ It had stroke me as unwitty!