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thumbnails allways cropp even when they shouldn't

pedrocas Member
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Ok,I've red a handful of topics on this subject but they were either old or didn't address this exact issue.

This is my problem: my thumbnails crop no matter if I check 'crop thumbnails' or not. I've purged the cache and the problem subsists.
I will take care of CSS/HTML issues latter, please don't go off-topic. The only thing I am looking for now is to know how to prevent thumbnails to crop.
I am using version 1.2.2

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  • tintita Member
    Hi! I have the same problem and I've tried to find a solution here in the forum, but it all seems very confusing to me. Some older solutions doesn't work for me at all, I guess it's because I use a newer version...

    Well, the problem is this:

    I want UNcropped thumbnails with the biggest side set to one value (100), so that I can make them line up nicely on the page. (But most important is that they are UNcropped!)

    My settings in the "theme options" are as follows:
    (I've tried them all + used "purge cache")

    Thumb size: 100
    Crop thumbnails: UNchecked, Crop width and Crop height: BLANK
    Image size: 595, Longest side

    The problem is that they REMAIN cropped.. (as you might have guessed) ;)

    I'm using Zenphoto version 1.2.2 with a custom theme based on the default one (light version), but the same behavior appears when i use the unmodified default theme.

    A have so far spent a bit too many hours with this problem and i feel that I'm not getting anywhere. I have tried changing the php code according to older posts here in this forum, but as i said it didn't work for me.. If I would be a programmer maybe it wouldn't be so difficult but since I'm just a poor designer I could need some help.. ;)

    I also understood that i can download a "Nightly build".. but is that the only solution and does it work? ..or is there a way i can modify the php code that is not to complicated.. (with some help)

    Another problem is that pictures uploaded with transparent background (like gif or png) get a BLACK background by default in the thumbnail. Is it possible to change this setting to WHITE by default?

    I'm very thankful if anyone could give me some advice on this, or at least link to another post that can be helpful that I might have missed.

    Btw, very nice job with the gallery it's the best one I've tried, love it! :D (except for this bug of course..) ;)
    Next step is trying out Zenpages, it looks like a very good application too.. :)
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    The nightly is the development version that already contains a lot of bugfixes especially to the image generation. The nightly is quite stable but may of course contain new bugs. but by testing you help us to find them...:-) You can of course wait until Feburary 1st when we roughly scheduled to release Zenphoto 1.2.3.

    Uncropped thumbs work fine for me just disabling the crop checkbox with the nightly and default theme. So you might want to give it a try.

    As to the black background, the thing is Zenphoto itself processes alls format to jpgs so the transparency gets lost (not sure if that is a GDlib issue maybe and if there is an option maybe right now). I suggest converting the images before uploading.
  • tintita Member
    I downloaded the Nightly and now everything works just fine, no problems at all!
    It was easy to install and a had no problems keeping my custom theme :)

    Thanks a lot for the help!
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