Scaling an Image to a Rect

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> ...here's what I do to generate thumbnail images...

You probably already know this, but in order to make the new Project 
Browser the RunRev team added the ability to create thumbnails from the 
import and export commands with the addition of "at" args:

    import snapshot [from rect[angle] rectangle] [of object]
      [(with | without) effects] [at size width, height]

You still need to calculate the desired width and height, but the time 
saved by letting the engine do this on the image buffer internally 
rather than resizing an image and re-setting its contents is pretty amazing.

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