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I have seen that in using :styles attributes in Paperclip, you ca specify sizes with #, as :thumb => "100x100#" as well as with >, as :medium => "480x320>". I am not exactly sure about the difference between the usage of # and >. Can anyone please enlighten me? Thanks.
These follow the rules of formatting for ImageMagick which can be found here
The
>lets the image keep the same aspect ratio when it is being scaled so it doesn’t get distorted.You will not find the
#key in the ImageMagick docs though, that is special to paperclip. It allows simple cropping of thumbnails to the specified size. See here for a good explanation [via Wayback Machine], about halfway down the page.