From: Chris Robinson 

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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