Hi, I am working on a new site and have run into the following problem.

I am trying to insert a Flickr gallery into the following page:  mg3.keepvancouveroriginal.ca/case-studies/retail-services-case-studies.html (The site is offline now. User: Joomlaworks; pw: yqB9wqbi)

The smart resize is enabled, the gallery size is 290x165 (set in the galley parameters): however, the smart resize does not seem to work, and so, the picture does not fit the frame.

The strange thing is, that on the mg3.keepvancouveroriginal.ca/news/world-routes-2010.html page everything works fine using the same Flickr set:  the proportions of the picture frames are the same as on the earlier page but the size is  smaller.

Are you referring to the thumbs in the first link?
Would you like to give them more width?

Hi Katia,

Yes, I am referring to the thumbs in the first link (There are three thumbs showing the same Flickr sets.)

The problem is that the photos don't seem to resize (smart resize) and so they don't fill out the thumb frame.

Please note, in the second link, there are thumbs of the same proportion as the thumb of the first link, and the smart resize works there.

Thanks,
Tom

Hi,

Having done some further digging it seems the problem is caused by the fact that for the photo thumb, the Sig Pro API calls the photo in 240*137 px size. So, it is not that the smart resize doesn't work, but the photo the API calls is already resized by Flickr to a size which is not large enough for my thumb frame.

This is the URL of the photo thumb the API calls:
farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7597685310_708e3085c4_m.jpg
This is the URL of the photothumb of the size I would need:
farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7597685310_708e3085c4_n.jpg
Please note, the difference between the two URLs are that one ends with "_m.jpg" and the other with "_n.jpg".

Do you know how can this be set up, so the thumbs the API calls are the ones with the URLs ending like _n.jpg?

Thank you,
Tom

mg3.keepvancouveroriginal.ca/case-studies/retail-services-case-studies.html
As far as I can see here, the thumbnails seems to be ok...

Sorry, we found a solution to the problem by changing the code of the
plugins/content/jw_sigpro/jw_sigpro.php file.

The following changes were made in line 345:
orig; $gallery[$key]->thumbImageFilePath = $photo->url_s;
new: $gallery[$key]->thumbImageFilePath = substr($photo->url_m, 0, -4).'_n.jpg';

This way, the thumbnail is called from Flickr in a one size larger size which is then smart resized to our thumbnail frame size.

Please let me know should you have any further recommendations.

Hello, please note, as far as I am concerned, this thread can be closed.

I seem to have an other issue for which I open a new thread, but just in case, I add the new entry here as well.

The pages where I have the Flickr set thumbs load unacceptably slow.
Please see e.g.
www.mg3.keepvancouveroriginal.ca/case-studies/real-estate-case-studies.html
I have 9 sets on the given page.

For comparison, I uploaded 9 other sets to the website and added them to an other page. This page runs pretty fast:
www.mg3.keepvancouveroriginal.ca/case-studies/retail-services-case-studies.html


Am I supposed to have more then one Flickr set on one page?
If yes, do you have some recommendation re to how the page rendering can be made faster?
Even though the YQL cache is set to 120 mins, it doesn't seem to make any difference compared to when it is set to zero. Any recommendations relative to this?

User: Joomlaworks; pw: yqB9wqbi)


Thank you,
Tom