Difference between watermarking and resizing.

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gb225450

Difference between watermarking and resizing.

Post by gb225450 »

Hi,
I am wondering if anyone might be able to offer some advice.

I am using IM magic to create thumbnails and water mark images on two of my domains. (using MX Kollection Pro Dreamweaver extension). It works fine on one of the domains. However, on the other domain only the “resizing” works. The watermarking produces an error/fails. They are both on the same server (IIS) and have identical setups. What is the difference between resizing and water marking when using IM? All I can think is that the watermarking “element” does not have the correct permissions? (but not sure what this element is) Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Wayne
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Post by anthony »

permissions would be one thing.

When you say identicial, do you mean the same IM version. Watermark was very very broken earily on in IM v6 testing.


Other things could be the virtual canvas effects from images. resize is not throughly tested with regards to handling virtual canvases (especially for optimized GIF animations) which is an area I have avoided looking at too deeply in IM examples until I had a deeper understanding of other related aspects.
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gb225450

Fixed

Post by gb225450 »

Hi,

Got it sorted. It did not work on the one site because PHP was running as an “ISAPI extension”

Thanks for the help.
Wayne
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