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image byte array to thumbnail byte array

Enygma · 2002-12-19 14:43:29

Like the title says. I've got an array of bytes that I've read from a BLOB. It's a GIF image and I want to make a thumbnail out of it. Let's say scale it down to 1/4 the size or something. This would be fine if I was able to use the AWT classes but I can't as I'm on a headless machine (no X11 server). There are supposed…

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19-12-2002 3:43pm

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Enygma

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Like the title says.
I've got an array of bytes that I've read from a BLOB. It's a GIF image and I want to make a thumbnail out of it. Let's say scale it down to 1/4 the size or something.
This would be fine if I was able to use the AWT classes but I can't as I'm on a headless machine (no X11 server).
There are supposed solutions such as setting java.awt.headless to true or installing some kind of x buffer or using fake AWT classes but I've had no luck with them so far.

So basically I want to know if it's possible to get an array of bytes and turn it into a thumbnail version of that array without using any AWT classes.

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