Re: [Gimp-user] creating thumbnails from a script

[Glen Lee Edwards <Glen@fcwm.org>]

Thanks all.  convert worked great.  Sure beat doing it by hand.

Glen

Wandered Inn writes:
 > joel wrote:
 > > 
 > > On Tuesday 28 August 2001 06:05 pm, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
 > > > I've been given over 200 jpg images that need to be thumbnailed.  Is there
 > > > a way from gimp to do this from a script or from the command line?
 > > 
 > > The easiest way is by using the magnificent convert command:
 > > 
 > > convert -geometry <width>x<height>
 > > 
 > > So, to quickly create 60x60 thumbnails of an entire directory of jpeg files
 > > (and to name each of the thumbs t_<file>), you'd type:
 > > 
 > > for i in *; do convert -geometry 60x60 $i jpeg:t_$i; done
 > 
 > OR, if you want to maintain the aspect ratio, you can use percentages as
 > in:
 > 
 > convert -geometry 30%x30% $i t-${i}
 > 
 > Which would reduce the image to 30% of it's original size in both width
 > and height.
 > 
 > > 
 > > --Joel
 > > 
 > > > Thanks,
 > > >
 > > > Glen
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