Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

Chapter 33. ColdFusion Image Processing

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In This Chapter

• Introducing <CFIMAGE> 297

• Manipulating Images with <CFIMAGE> 302

• Exploring Other ColdFusion Image Manipulation Techniques 315

• Creating and Drawing Images with ColdFusion 317

• Summary 321

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One often repeated request of ColdFusion developers prior to version 8 was the capability to manipulate images directly in ColdFusion. Adobe has listened to ColdFusion’s developer community and has given developers, with just a few lines of code, the ability to dynamically resize images, inspect image metadata, and much more. ColdFusion 8 now lets developers remove much of the drudgery of working with images in applications and even allows developers to create new types of graphically ...