aino-convert

aino-convert is a basically wrapper for ImageMagick convert_ with caching. The main purpose is to help generate quality thumbnails simply and efficiently. During the development of sorl-thumbnail I learned some and eventually I took the plunge to write something using ImageMagick convert instead of PIL.

Pros

• Simple thumbnail tag generating high quality output
• Remote files handling on the fly
• Usage of convert commandline syntax for infinate flexibility
• Caching mechanism
• Cleanup of unused images or conversions of images can be made
• Storage is local file storage only

Cons

• Requirements: convert, pyexiv2 is nice to have
• Storage is local file storage only
• Security (protecting the developer from himself)

Demo

There is a demo in the demo directory. To run the demo it just cd in to it and type: ./run

.. _ImageMagic convert: http://www.imagemagick.org/