First of all i would like to thank you on a awsome set of add-on's, great work!!

During image import from the admin, a preview and thumbnail is created. there is a problem with the scaling software, not the displaying code. When you have an animated gif and it is scaled it will kill the animated part when your scaling code is used. when i use photoshop cs2 to create the thumbnail and preview and not whatever is used from the admin menu, the animated part of the gif is kept intact.

I will be testing each update so you can gladly email me for any info on this issue since i use alot of art of all types and formats on my site. Please fix this asap so dont have to do this manuelly, thanks again.

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dman’s picture

dman commented
Category: bug » feature
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Needs work » Active

Do you think this is related to image_import, or is it just the image toolkit you (your server) is using?
I suspect that it happens with most image conversion scripts that haven't been coded specially to support this request. it would appear that PHP-GD does NOT and you'll have to add a lot of extra code - an alternative toolkit to try and get this working.
It's possible that imageMagick does - I dunno.

This is certainly an advanced feature request. You may have to ask nicely or sponsor it to be added.

It COULD be added as an imagecache special-scale process, because the non-native code overhead would probably be a performance hit for many other processes that don't/haven't needed this.

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Draven_Caine commented

well, i am not a programmer or coder, all i know is when scaled the module takes one frame from the animation.
wether it is the image server end of the module end ... i am clueless, sorry.

I have alot of images on my website so i just have to do more work to get it to work right. I labeled it as a bug because in my opinion it should work with gif's too but that just me expecting the unexpected. I do think that there are more people with my issue and greatly thank the coder for the module.

for my uses i only use the import part of this module and hard-code the gallery part since the module didnt do exactly what i was looking for. just me being silly i guess lol

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dman commented

It is a reasonable request in most ways.
It's just that the image processing script doesn't natively support animations.
It's a whole set of different libraries.
Not impossible ... but not automatic either. Maybe in PHP6. :-B

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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This is a known issue with GD2, which cannot be fixed by Image module.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I have the included ImageMagick module enabled, how do I select imagemagick as the image processor? I can't seem to find it anywhere. ImageMagick supports scaling animated gifs I think?