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to: Chris Robinson
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2003-04-11 16:02:52
subject: Re: Batch Image Resizing.. Continued

From: "Adam Flinton" 

have you tried JAlbum? It's java...


Adam

"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3E96A382.A4990CA1{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> I've found something that'll keep me going for the time being whilst I
figure out a way to
> do this.  It has a lot better JPEG compression than ImageMagik but it's
only an evaluation
> copy - it's not OpenSource :o(, but it seams pretty good for the mo.
>
> http://www.iseult-soft.com/en/download.php
>
> Chris.
>
> Chris Robinson wrote:
>
> > Howdy ho.
> >
> > I posted a while back about batch image resizing in Linux.  I'd tried
> > various options but found the best one to be the resize in the GIMP.  I
> > then found a useful tutorial that had a script-fu detailed that resized
> > images.  I tested it out and it worked - yippie!  Now I know the script
> > works, it can be called from a bash prompt to batch resize images.  I
> > posted to the message boards at the site where I got the info from but
> > no-one's replied since March 26th (I'm wondering how active the boards
> > there are?).  Anyway, below's what I posted and I was wondering if
> > anyone here could help (since at this point it's more of a bash command
> > issue than a GIMP one) - many thanks, Chris:
> >
>
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> >
> > .....I came across this site and read the tutorial here:
> > http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/tomcat17/ . It was just what I was after
> > and step2 "creating the Script-fu" went fine. I created
the script and
> > ran it i the Gimp - nice. However, step5 (calling the Gimp
> > automatically) didn't work.
> > I ran through some of the steps outlined in step4 to try to troubleshoot
> > the problem and found out a few things:
> > - The Xvfb as "1:0" is wrong for my system and I don't
know how to find
> > out the right one to use (newbie here!).
> > - I got rid of that line and tried to run it manually from a bash
> > prompt. I did:
> > $ gimp -b '(script-fu-rsc 100 100 "infile.jpg"
"outfile.jpg")'
> > '(gimp-quit 0)'
> > This worked fine, so I figured I could adapt the shell script to just
> > leave out the "--display" and other switches (except
"-b" obviously) and
> > just to try to get it working but still no joy - I even tried typing the
> > entire "for" statement at a bash prompt.
>
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