

The most notable use is with an argument such as ' 1x1<'. The inverse to the previous flag is ' <', which will onlyĮnlarges images that are smaller than the given size, is rarely used. HTML web pages, so PHP scripts also may need some special handling. That character (using backslash ' \>' in shell, and The Only Shrink Flag (' >' flag) is a special character inīoth UNIX Shell and in Window batch scripts, and you will need to escape Thumbnail generation, when enlarging images generally may not desirable as it This option is often very important for saving disk space for images, or in

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Remains intact and whole, but individual points of color merged orĮxpanded to use up a smaller/larger canvas area. We look at enlarging and reducing images in various ways. Resampling by Nicolas Robidoux (separate section)
