ImageMagick & thumbnails

[teccus]

I want to use Image Magick to create a bunch of thumbnails of my images in PHP. My images are not all the same width or height but when creating a thumbnail I want to use a fixed height and width.

What I am trying to do in Image Magick is to resize the image as close as possible to the fixed height and width, then crop the remaining bits (so it does not resize to small and leave blank areas in the image where the image does not match the width/height).

I know how to crop and resize but I'm not sure how to do it like I need. Any suggestions?

[teccus]

Any ideas anyone?

[2005]

Some time ago I was looking for the same, but didn't find answer, hot to do this. So, I do resizing like this:

$newWidth = "80";

exec("convert -strip -geometry \"".$newWidth."x".$newWidth."\" \"$src_file\" \"$dest_file\"");

This makes thumbnail, but doesn't crops the largest side.