Thumbnail width for portrait images

[boris612]

ThumbnailImage method allows a user to specify only width, but it does not work correctly for portrait images (or it is not correctly documented)
For example, if you write the following code

var image = Image.NewFromFile(filename);
Image thumbnail = image.ThumbnailImage(300);

for the image with dimensions 600x900 then it would produce 200x300 thumbnail instead of 300x450.
It appears that it translates to vipsthumbnail.exe -s 300 instead to vipsthumbnail.exe -s 300x

A workaround is to calculate height or to give some large value for height
Image thumbnail = image.ThumbnailImage(300, height: a big enough number)

[kleisauke]

This is a known issue in libvips. See libvips/libvips#709 for a future possible enhancement.

A workaround is to calculate height or to give some large value for height
Image thumbnail = image.ThumbnailImage(300, height: a big enough number)

Indeed, you can set the target resize height to VIPS_MAX_COORD (which is currently 10000000) to prevent reduction or enlargement in the vertical axis and vice versa for the target resize width (that's what vipsthumbnail does).

var image = Image.NewFromFile(filename);
Image thumbnail = image.ThumbnailImage(300);

You could use Image.Thumbnail instead. Because the image has already been opened, it can't do any of the shrink tricks that makes thumbnailing fast. #64 might be relevant here.

[boris612]

Thanks for the info, it solves the problem. Just a suggestion. Maybe you could write a similar note in the method summary, and/or define public constant VIPS_MAX_COORD and set default height value to it instead to null.

[kleisauke]

See libvips/libvips#1639 for a draft that changes the vips_thumbnail into a resize based on a specific axis. Any feedback is welcome!