javascript - HTML5 Canvas drawImage ratio bug iOS

Question

I want to resize the image taken from the iOS camera on the client side with HTML5 Canvas but I keep running in this weird bug where the image has a wrong ratio if bigger than ~1.5mb

It works on the desktop but not in the latest iOS version with the media upload API.

You can see an example here: http://jsbin.com/ekuros/1

Any idea how to fix this please? Is this a memory issue?

$('#file').on('change', function (e) {
    var file = e.currentTarget.files[0];
    var reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = function (e) {
        var image = $('<img/>');
        image.on('load', function () {
            var square = 320;
            var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');

            canvas.width = square;
            canvas.height = square;

            var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
            context.clearRect(0, 0, square, square);
            var imageWidth;
            var imageHeight;
            var offsetX = 0;
            var offsetY = 0;

            if (this.width > this.height) {
                imageWidth = Math.round(square * this.width / this.height);
                imageHeight = square;
                offsetX = - Math.round((imageWidth - square) / 2);
            } else {
                imageHeight = Math.round(square * this.height / this.width);
                imageWidth = square;    
                offsetY = - Math.round((imageHeight - square) / 2);            
            }

            context.drawImage(this, offsetX, offsetY, imageWidth, imageHeight);
            var data = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg');

            var thumb = $('<img/>');
            thumb.attr('src', data);
            $('body').append(thumb);
        });
        image.attr('src', e.target.result);
    };
    reader.readAsDataURL(file);
});

Answer 1

If you still need to use the long version of the drawImage function you can change this:

context.drawImage(img, sx, sy, sw, sh, dx, dy, dw, dh);

to this:

drawImageIOSFix(context, img, sx, sy, sw, sh, dx, dy, dw, dh);

You just need to include these two functions somewhere:

/**
 * Detecting vertical squash in loaded image.
 * Fixes a bug which squash image vertically while drawing into canvas for some images.
 * This is a bug in iOS6 devices. This function from https://github.com/stomita/ios-imagefile-megapixel
 * 
 */
function detectVerticalSquash(img) {
    var iw = img.naturalWidth, ih = img.naturalHeight;
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    canvas.width = 1;
    canvas.height = ih;
    var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
    ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    var data = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 1, ih).data;
    // search image edge pixel position in case it is squashed vertically.
    var sy = 0;
    var ey = ih;
    var py = ih;
    while (py > sy) {
        var alpha = data[(py - 1) * 4 + 3];
        if (alpha === 0) {
            ey = py;
        } else {
            sy = py;
        }
        py = (ey + sy) >> 1;
    }
    var ratio = (py / ih);
    return (ratio===0)?1:ratio;
}

/**
 * A replacement for context.drawImage
 * (args are for source and destination).
 */
function drawImageIOSFix(ctx, img, sx, sy, sw, sh, dx, dy, dw, dh) {
    var vertSquashRatio = detectVerticalSquash(img);
 // Works only if whole image is displayed:
 // ctx.drawImage(img, sx, sy, sw, sh, dx, dy, dw, dh / vertSquashRatio);
 // The following works correct also when only a part of the image is displayed:
    ctx.drawImage(img, sx * vertSquashRatio, sy * vertSquashRatio, 
                       sw * vertSquashRatio, sh * vertSquashRatio, 
                       dx, dy, dw, dh );
}

This will work fine whether it is run on iOS or other platforms.

This is based on the great work by stomita and you should credit him in your work.