From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 10:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teak.adhesivemedia.com (teak.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4524F37B405 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by teak.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9QHHiL44088; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:17:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to resize many images from a console-prompt? In-Reply-To: <20011026181810.A23909@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20011026101651.J43634-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? ;) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message