Resizer

Resizer is a thumbnail generator and image resizer for node with a transform stream interface. Its goal is to be simple and fast. Current implementation is based on GraphicsMagick and adopt smart tricks to speed up conversione and provide better images so you don't need to know all graphics magick options and internals.

It is based on the Stream 2 API, so it will not work on node v0.8. If you want node v0.8, please submit a pull-request.

Dependecies

Make sure you have GraphicsMagick installed and in path. You can install it through your package manager, on Ubuntu systems should be something like:

$: sudo apt-get update
$: sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick

Installation

$: npm install resizer --save

Pipe usage

var resizer = require('resizer')
  , fs = require('fs')
  , inputImage = fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/input.jpg')
  , outputImage = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/output.jpg');

inputImage.pipe(resizer.contain({height: 200, width:300})).pipe(outputImage);

Thumbnail modes

Resizer can generate three type of thumbnail, modelled after css3 background-size specification: cover, contain, crop

Contain

Creates an image whose sizes are at max the ones specified. Keeps aspect ratio. You also can specify only width or height.

resizer.contain({height: 200, width:300});
resizer.contain({width:300});

Cover

Creates an image whose sizes are exactly the ones specified. The original image is scaled down to cover entirely the specified area and then the exceding parte of the image are "cut out" to fit the new aspect ratio.

resizer.cover({height: 200, width:300});

Crop

Creates an image whose sizes are exactly the ones specified. The reduced image is obtained picking it from a rectangle of the same sizes from the center of the image.

resizer.crop({height: 200, width:300});

Options

You can pass other options along with height and width:

• debug: a function called to print debug infos (defaults to empty function)
• convertTo: an image format to convert to. should be one supported by graphics magick (example: jpg)
• quality: set graphics magick quality (defaults to 91)

Output images

Resizer will do some additional changes to the output images:

• auto-orient: automatically orient the image data and discard orientation exif data
• strip: strip all metadata

This will be optional sometime in the future. If you really need them please open a feature request or, even better, submit a pull-request.

Contributing to Resizer

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.

Tests

Resizer is tested with mocha, you can lunch the test suite with make test

Benchmark

We have two benchmark suites:

• make benchme benchmark all types of thumbnails on different images, it is usefull to check performance after changes to the code
• make bench benchmark resizer against other common libraries for image resizing

Contributors

Special thanks to Matteo Collina ( http://matteocollina.com ) for contributing the original code to handle graphics magick and its quirks.

LICENSE - "BSD-2-Clause"

Copyright (c) 2013 Paolo Chiodi

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