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Pascal France	Monday 06 October 2008 8:11:28 am Hi, I use Exponential 3.9.3 When I use the default image class to import some images, I get 2 aliases of it: large and reference. 1°/ Why do I get only these 2 alias while I don't use any override of image.ini and while the size of the original image is 3885x2565 ? I should also get small, medium and rss aliases. 2°/ Why don't I get alias if I create my own image class ? I haven't found any place in image.ini where to specify the name of a class which should be affected by the creation of aliases.Is it hard-coded somewhere ? Pascal Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits... quelque part... (A. de Saint-Exupéry) - http://luxpopuli.fr/eZ-Publish
Gaetano Giunta	Monday 06 October 2008 11:18:31 am 1 - Maybe because images variations are created on-the-fly when you use them in a given template and the template is displayed? It sure would save a lot of space and processing time compared to "create all variations immediately for all images"... 2 - usage of image aliases is not tied to classes, but rather to templates Principal Consultant International Business Member of the Community Project Board
Pascal France	Monday 06 October 2008 1:02:29 pm Hi Gaetano, Thank you for your reply. As all aliases are created at the time we upload an image with the online editor, I was amazed not seeing all aliases in the storage directory after uploading an image from an image dataype. I just tested the on-the-fly image creation and, of course, it works perfectly. Pascal Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits... quelque part... (A. de Saint-Exupéry) - http://luxpopuli.fr/eZ-Publish

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Pascal France

Monday 06 October 2008 8:11:28 am

Hi,

I use Exponential 3.9.3

When I use the default image class to import some images, I get 2 aliases of it: large and reference.
1°/ Why do I get only these 2 alias while I don't use any override of image.ini and while the size of the original image is 3885x2565 ? I should also get small, medium and rss aliases.

2°/ Why don't I get alias if I create my own image class ? I haven't found any place in image.ini where to specify the name of a class which should be affected by the creation of aliases.Is it hard-coded somewhere ?

Pascal

Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits... quelque part... (A. de Saint-Exupéry) - http://luxpopuli.fr/eZ-Publish

Gaetano Giunta

Monday 06 October 2008 11:18:31 am

1 - Maybe because images variations are created on-the-fly when you use them in a given template and the template is displayed?
It sure would save a lot of space and processing time compared to "create all variations immediately for all images"...

2 - usage of image aliases is not tied to classes, but rather to templates

Principal Consultant International Business
Member of the Community Project Board

Pascal France

Monday 06 October 2008 1:02:29 pm

Hi Gaetano,

Thank you for your reply.

As all aliases are created at the time we upload an image with the online editor, I was amazed not seeing all aliases in the storage directory after uploading an image from an image dataype.

I just tested the on-the-fly image creation and, of course, it works perfectly.

Pascal

Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits... quelque part... (A. de Saint-Exupéry) - http://luxpopuli.fr/eZ-Publish