Scale and Crop with Image Alchemy

Hello,
We're using Digital Asset Managment with Image Alchemy for the conversion engine. Does anybody know how to configure a rendition set that scales and crops an image without distortion? So if you check-in a 1000x1500 pixel jpeg, it could scale it down and crop it to exactly 100x100 pixels.
I've been looking through the Image Alchemy documentation, but haven't found this example yet.
Thanks
-Jason

All you need to do is define an "ImageAlchemy" variable inside the "ImageManager_NameValues" ResultSet, DAM automatically knows when to use it for the rendition info. But instead of pointing to the ImageAlchemy executable file, I point to my script. For my conversion ResultSet's extEngine, I refer to an "ImageMagick" variable instead.

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