= ImageScience

* http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html
* http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb
* http://github.com/tdd/image_science/tree/master (fork with JPEG quality patch)

== DESCRIPTION:

ImageScience is a clean and happy Ruby library that generates
thumbnails -- and kicks the living crap out of RMagick. Oh, and it
doesn't leak memory like a sieve. :)

For more information including build steps, see http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* Glorious graphics manipulation magi... errr, SCIENCE! in less than 200 LoC!
* Supports square and proportional thumbnails, as well as arbitrary resizes.
* Pretty much any graphics format you could want. No really.

== SYNOPSYS:

  ImageScience.with_image(file) do |img|
    img.cropped_thumbnail(100) do |thumb|
      thumb.save "#{file}_cropped.png"
    end

    img.thumbnail(100) do |thumb|
      thumb.save "#{file}_thumb.png"
    end
  end
  
The save method accepts an optional jpeg_quality argument, defaulting to JPEG_QUALITYSUPERB
(100% quality / lossless), which you can change to any of the JPEG_xxx constants in FreeImage
when saving to JPEG in order to considerably reduce file size.

== REQUIREMENTS:

* FreeImage
* ImageScience

== INSTALL:

* Download and install FreeImage. See notes at url above.
* sudo gem install -y image_science
* see http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html for more info.

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Ryan Davis, Seattle.rb

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'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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