Frequently Asked Questions

Technology

1. Why not use Image Magick instead of JAI?
2. Isn't base-64 inlining of the image inefficient?

Technology

Why not use Image Magick instead of JAI?

The first implementation of this was used i a pure Java CMS, so we decided to use Java Advanced Imaging to do the basic image processing. It turned out that scaling images with high quality using JAI was a bit more difficut than expected, but not impossible - more on this here.

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Isn't base-64 inlining of the image inefficient?

Encoding with base-64 adds about 30% to the image size compared to transferring the binary data, but the image size is so small that this is not a problem