[Templates] Image plugin (was: Modifying TT functions at run time)

[Mark Fowler]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Steve Sapovits wrote:

> ImageMagick/PerlMagick is the most full-featured image package
> I've used.  You could conceivably build a TT interface that 
> would provide some level of dynamic imaging using IM.  

Indeed, but it'd be stupidly slow compared to Image::Size.  Image::Size 
doens't actually load in the image...it just peaks inside the headers of 
the file and pulls out the info from there.  Unless of course it doesn't 
understand the image format, in which case *it* uses Image::Magick do the 
job.

Not that I'm saying that we shouldn't have an Image::Magick plugin, just 
it's a seperate task imho.

Mark.

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