Image resize strategy by fixed factor

Archived from the Transloadit support forum. Originally posted on July 29, 2013; details may be outdated, see our docs for current behavior. Original thread

Hi,

Is there a way to resize an image by a fixed factor. e.g. I want all uploaded images to be 1/3 of the original dimensions (http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#percent).

This seems like a trivial question, but I went through the image resize options and couldn’t find a solution.

-z

Hey zyang,

this is currently not possible, but we could add that feature.

Can you please explain your use case behind this?

Kind regards,
Tim

Co-Founder Transloadit
@tim_kos

Thanks for the quick response Tim.

The use case is for managing assets for different screen DPI. e.g. upload a retina image asset, and resize by 50% to create a none retina version.

I’m just wondering how long it would take for transloadit to implement this, so we can decide whether to implement a work around on our side, or just wait.

Hey zyang,

honestly you are the first who asks for this, so the feature is not on our immediate roadmap. So it will probably take anyway between 4 and 12 weeks to implement this.

What work around would you implement?

Kind regards,
Tim

Co-Founder Transloadit
@tim_kos

Hey zyang,

are you still interested in this?

Kind regards,
Tim

Co-Founder Transloadit
@tim_kos

I am going to close this ticket for now. Please feel free to reopen it again if you have further questions.

Kind regards,
Tim

Co-Founder Transloadit
@tim_kos