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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        rene@xs4all.nl
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to resize many images from a console-prompt?
Message-ID:  <20011026101651.J43634-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011026181810.A23909@xs4all.nl>

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In addition to ImageMagick you could alsy try the netpbm package.  I did a
little testing using some images I took with a digital camera (just
shrinking jpegs) and netpbm did a *lot* better job of compression without
losing quality.  It was a bit slower though...

-philip

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 rene@xs4all.nl wrote:

> Hi. I have large directories full of image files that I need to do processing
> on. Can anyone tell me which packages are out there that might assist me?
>
> I'm particularly looking for functionality to get fileinformation (width,
> height, no of colors) in an .gif, .png or .jpg image.
> With that information, I'd like to be able to resize all 3 fileformats to
> something that I specify.
> For instance, I'd like to be able to resize along only 1 edge, and have the
> program calculate the proportions for me, and any whitespace that is left
> over should have a color defined by me or be transparant..
>
> I know I'm asking for a lot; is it out there? ;)
>
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