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    Default Some small thumbnails still scaling on the fly

    I've been putting pre-scaled thumbnails (the _MED and _LRG thing) on the site, and it's working for 85% of the product listings. There are four small thumbnails that are still being dynamically scaled by Zen Cart, and I can't figure out why. I've confirmed that the image files are all present, named properly, scaled to the right sizes, and open in an image viewer.

    I've tried flushing the cache and even running Window Washer. I've also tried this in FF, IE, Opera and Maxthon with the same result.

    On a side note, I noticed that the "graininess" of the dynamically scaled images is worse in FF than the other browsers. IE does a little better job, and Opera smoothed them out so much that for a moment I thought it was working properly. I added a small red do to the lower right corner of the small thumbnails so I could tell at a glance whether the image was pre-scaled or not. None of the browsers show the thumbs in question with the red dot, so they are definitely still being scaled on the fly.

    The site is Nelson Fine Arts

    The problem thumbs are:
    Landscapes|Napali Sunset
    Marine Life|Grotto Rhapsody
    Marine Life|Passage to Paradise
    Marine Life|Racing the Wind

    Here's what the thumbs should look like if they aren't still being dynamically scaled:





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    Default Re: Some small thumbnails still scaling on the fly

    Oops. forgot the link!

    Nelson Fine Arts

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    Default Re: Some small thumbnails still scaling on the fly

    The ones that are getting confused all have spaces in their names - have you tried renaming them with an underscore or dash between words?
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    Default Re: Some small thumbnails still scaling on the fly

    All the images on the site have spaces, but I decided to try your suggestion anyway, and I'm glad I did, since it led me to the actual solution. When I went to the admin Categories|Products to upload the renamed file, I discovered that the directory had been set to the default /images instead of /images/nfa when I had made those four entries. Therefore, Zen Cart wasn't seeing the _MED and _LRG entries for those items because it expected to see them in a different directory.

    Thanks! I think that was the last item on the punchlist for this site!

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    Default Re: Some small thumbnails still scaling on the fly

    Glad to hear you found the problem, but your should still rename all of the images. Spaces in file names can cause problems.
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