size of catalog photos

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   I was told:

"unfortunately we are stuck with the way Product Cart sizes the
thumbnails for the catalog pages. The images are all sized based on one
dimension, either horizontal or vertical. So if we size all the images
at 200px wide, the landscape format images will be significantly smaller
than portrait images. And vice versa if we size them based on 200px
high. This is a fairly common issue, and without some serious
programming, I don't see any way around this issue"

is this true? its simple to customize the size of thumb images in the source code as far as I know....

Zeytin

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Ceylan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 03-August-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ceylan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: size of catalog photos Posted: 07-October-2006 at 9:13am
	I was told: "unfortunately we are stuck with the way Product Cart sizes the thumbnails for the catalog pages. The images are all sized based on one dimension, either horizontal or vertical. So if we size all the images at 200px wide, the landscape format images will be significantly smaller than portrait images. And vice versa if we size them based on 200px high. This is a fairly common issue, and without some serious programming, I don't see any way around this issue" is this true? its simple to customize the size of thumb images in the source code as far as I know.... Zeytin

netprofits Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 05-January-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote netprofits Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07-October-2006 at 10:12am
	You have a couple of options depending on how much work you want to do. 1. When you perform the upload and resize for a specific product, you can set the max size that you want for each image view (thumbnail, regular and detail). You don't have to accept the defaults. 2. You can upload individual pics and then select those pics from the Product entry screen without using the upload and resize feature. 3. You can create your product images of specific sizes, FTP those pics to the catalog folder, and then use the product import wizard with the image names in the import or use the product entry screen to select the proper images without using the pload and resize.
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MarkCoyle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06-June-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote MarkCoyle Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15-October-2006 at 7:19am
	That's what I did. For some reason the forum won't paste in my example link so to see it working go to http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.com then 'artist a-z' and then 'Brimstone, Derek' where you can see variable shape thumbs. cheers Mark Edited by MarkCoyle - 15-October-2006 at 7:20am