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

[joel <jijoel@lava.net>]

Hey, that's the Linux motto! "Do nothing by hand" ;-)

--Joel

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 10:40 am, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> 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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