From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 26 13:29:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28419 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28413 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA04310; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:21:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:21:49 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: "Justin M. Seger" cc: db@minot.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gif to jpeg. In-Reply-To: <199802252219.RAA02684@freebsd.scds.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Justin M. Seger wrote: > > anyone know of any command line stuff to convert a gif into a jpg ?? > > thanks a > > million guys and gals. > > There's most likely an involved one using the pbm utils, but xv does all > that for me, and screen grabs/colormods/displays besides, without having > to grope thru manpages. > > The easiest thing (that I know of) is to install graphics/ImageMagick. You can > then use its convert program to convert any graphics format to any other. In the function listed, they're nearly equal. Same for gimp. I thought that xv had a simpler command structure, since it's not a general purpose paint program. gimp would stand out as the highest functionality (and the most complicated) with ImageMagick somewhere in between. All a matter of opinion, of course. > > -Justin Seger- > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message