Link 3×5 and 5×3 images without cropping?

  • Resolved texlong

    (@texlong)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I don’t think this is a NextGEN problem, but it is a problem… and it occurred to me you might know a solution.

    I have a lot of 3×5 index cards that need to be scanned. Some are written in landscape mode, some in portrait. It seems that regardless of what actual pixel size we make them, linking them to Facebook winds up with the top and bottom cropped, and losing some of the text. We’ve even tried changing the aspect ratio and size with ImageMagick without any real success.

    This seems to be a very common complaint – do you have any ideas that we might try?

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  • Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    NGFB adds meta tags to webpage headers, and for the included images, you can control the size and aspect ratio (see the Settings -> Social Image Dimensions page). In the case of Facebook, it will read the ‘og:image’ meta tag and — this is the important bit — depending on it’s dimensions (large, small, aspect ratio, etc.) AND the resolution of the browser (think iphone, ipad, laptop, etc.) it will present the image in a size and format it deems appropriate. There are a variety of articles on which sizes are better, but as the help popup for the Facebook / Open Graph image dimensions option says, Facebook prefers 1200×630. You might want to try that. ??

    js.

    Thread Starter texlong

    (@texlong)

    The actual scanned 3×5 card (ScanSnap IX500 – GREAT little scanner!) shows up as a jpg at approximately 900×1500 ps or 1500×900, depending on orientation. I’ve tried a lot of different aspect ratios, including the 40×21 you mentioned, albeit not in that specific size. I’ll give it a shot right now and report back.

    Thread Starter texlong

    (@texlong)

    I used ImageMagick to convert/resize from 900×1500 to 630×1200. Also edited NGFB General parameters to 1200×1200, center/center, no crop. Result of display basically still the same. Am I doing something wrong, or missing something?

    Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    As I said before, you can offer your images in a format that Facebook suggests, but they will crop it and present it according to their own internal rules — which, as I said, depend on the resolution of the image AND the device being used (not to mention the device’s orientation).

    See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#images and https://blog.bufferapp.com/ideal-image-sizes-social-media-posts for more info.

    js.

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