Re: Resizing images (Gimp???)

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:43:00PM -0500, Brune, Charlie wrote:
> I have many fantastic digital images of my vacation. Unfortunetly,
> they're huge. 2048x1536.
>
> Is there any way to tell Gimp (or some other program) to go through a
> directory and resize all of these pictures to 640x480. (Yes, I'd make
> copies first, of course!) 8-)

for file in *.jpg ; do
    newfile="`echo "$file" | sed 's/\.jpg$/-640x480&/'`"
    jpegtopnm "$file" | pnmscale -xysize 640 480 | pnmtojpeg > "$newfile"
done

> I want to make a web page of the pics, but don't want the death
> threats that go along with such big pics.

Kara's thing may be your best bet.

Steve
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