Thumnails: Can they be auto-centered?

[Ely]

Hi there,

I wondered when you upload an image and the thumbnail is auto-cropped to, say, 60px x 60px is there a way to have that generated thumbnail cropped so the thumbnail image is centered? At present the auto-crop is to the left of the image.

Thanks
Karl

[Dennis]

use on of the alternative cropping methods. I suggest the Flashcrop addon.

[Ely]

Hi there, thanks for the tip. I tried it (I am using PP1.7RC1) and it seems to function but when I edit a thumbnail and click crop it does not seem to crop the image, it just reverts to original PP crop.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Karl

[austriaka]

do you have correct gd library installed? What does the general info page in admin panel say?

[Dennis]

Try refreshing your browser with CTRL-F5. Probably a caching issue.

[Ely]

Hi all,

Think it is working ok now although if I update an existing thumbnail I have to refresh the browser once the update is applied. Is this normal.

In options/thumnails what setting should I have applied for 'crop thumbnail: on, off or 12cropimage?

This is my GD: GD-lib bundled (2.0.28 compatible) with JPEG support

I really like this add-on, it gives better quality thumbnails than before.

Thank you
Karl

[austriaka]

1) yes, this is normal browser behaviour. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
2) If you use FlashCrop Addon, set the cropping to "off" (as described in the FlashCrop documentation)

[Dennis]

addendum 2) or set it to yes to preserve ratio.

[austriaka]

read more information about thumbnail settings here:
http://www.pixelpost.org/docs/AdminPanel/Options#thumb