About Trivial-Thumbnail
A tiny library to create thumbnails with ImageMagick. The binaries convert
and mogrify
need to be available on your system for this to work.
How To
The main function to use is create
.
(thumbnail:create #p"~/input.png" #p"~/input-thumb.png")
=> #p"~/input-thumb.png"
Of course it allows for different kinds of thumbnail generation with the crop
argument:
(thumbnail:create #p"~/input.png" #p"~/input-thumb.png" :crop :WIDTH)
(thumbnail:create #p"~/input.png" #p"~/input-thumb.png" :crop :HEIGHT)
(thumbnail:create #p"~/input.png" #p"~/input-thumb.png" :crop T)
Using :WIDTH
means that the image is first scaled down preserving the aspect ratio to fit into the given height and then crops the remaining width to fit the given width. :HEIGHT
works similarly. T
just crops the image without any scaling.
This library uses ImageMagick mostly because it can handle gif animations properly, which a lot of other tools cannot. Processing animation is calculation-intensive though, so if you want to disable that (resulting in a static gif), you can pass :preserve-gif NIL
.
Trivial-Thumbnail attempts to locate the necessary binaries automatically, searching the usual paths such as /usr/bin
, /usr/local/bin
and C:/windows/system32/
, C:/Program Files/ImageMagick*/
. If it fails to find a suitable binary, it throws a warning at startup. When the binary is somewhere else, but still within your PATH
, it should still work properly. Otherwise you will have to set *CONVERT-BIN*
and *MOGRIFY-BIN*
yourself.