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[Ali Majrashi]

hello.

i really waiting to use the multiple upload file with new vrsion

but can ips add more images types to be display when you Attach it to topic
like when you Attach gif jpeg the image will show in the topic as image automatically
see



but when you Attach bmp images it'll be like you Attach rar or any other files

[Jaggi]

i believe you can do this yourself. All you have to do is change the mime-type of the extension in the acp.

[Ali Majrashi]

i believe you can do this yourself. All you have to do is change the mime-type of the extension in the acp.

i think this will allow you just to upload what i mean after uploading when some one preview
the topic it's better to show image instate of Attachment file

[bfarber]

Unfortunately I don't think this is easily possible. The reason is, we use the GD libraries to handle images uploaded (pretty much every PHP script does) and there are no BMP functions with the GD libraries. Only gif, jpg and png (and wbmp, which is not bmp). Thus we can't resize, etc.

[Ali Majrashi]

can you also add options to use image magic to handle it
i think image magic can handle many types more than jpeg,gif,png
this can be optional in ACP like the gallery dose

[bfarber]

While we may add support for ImageMagick, I'm not sure if we'd build in support for BMP or not. MOST users would still be using GD (probably 95% or more) and the functionality of the software would need to be generally consistent between the two image handling methods.

[Amy T]

I did not think any one used BMP any more its so huge of a file.

[Morrigan]

BMP is for Windows BG's and that's it.

[henke37]

Fun fact: the bmp format is a mess, the y axis is inverted, relative to normal computer inverted axises! But only images with positive heights! Blame the IBM/MS failure OS devteam for this mess. Anyway, they are too big to bother to support here if you ask me.

[Ali Majrashi]

sorry if i cause any confuse but i say bmp as example you can
visit the image magick web site
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
and see how many formats they support more than GD Lib

also it's better to support more types than just 3 types

and if i want to use the gallery it's better to support most of the images
now my gallery only support gif, jpg and png even i enable the image magick option
all the bmp image not showing

i really need this to be add to the gallery and the board

[TrixieTang]

sorry if i cause any confuse but i say bmp as example you can

visit the image magick web site

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php

and see how many formats they support more than GD Lib

also it's better to support more types than just 3 types

and if i want to use the gallery it's better to support most of the images

now my gallery only support gif, jpg and png even i enable the image magick option

all the bmp image not showing

i really need this to be add to the gallery and the board

All the images I ever see on the web are either gif, jpg, png, and the very rare bitmap... considering bitmaps are such a waste of space, I'm glad they aren't supported by many web applications these days.

Really, gif, jpg, and pngs are what's supported by all web software these days, I see no reason to add more to the list IPB supports.

[bfarber]

The problem, as I said before, is that even if imagemagick supports them, GD doesn't. Given that nearly all of our users use GD, probably more than 95%, it's not a good use of development time to support formats that almost no one will be able to use, and of those that are capable almost none of them WILL. I mean, who uploads a "Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format" image to a website anyways.

[W13]

don't bother with BMP's ... better to use PNG if you want to preserve quality. ... and JPG is great for compression.

[Lindsey_]

Why are people still using BMP's ? :lol: