Re: Shrinking a lot of jpegs?

[Mark Szidik <szidikm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just did exactly the same thing with "/usr/bin/X11/convert" from
ImageMagick.  Great Tool.

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Mark Szidik
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Bruce Smith wrote:

> I'm looking for a program that can shrink a large amount of
> jpeg's by a certain percentage, without manual intervention.
> 
> I have a lot of pictures taken with my digital camera that
> I would like to put on a web page.  The pictures are large
> and there are a lot of them.  To many MB for one web page.
> I'd like to create the web page so there are small pictures 
> people can click on to see the large one.  (thumbnails?)
> 
> I realize that programs like "xv" and "gimp" can do this,
> but I only know how to do it manually.  Loading each picture,
> shrinking it, and saving it under a new name.  This is very
> time consuming for a large number of pictures.  I want to 
> just give a directory or file list to a program, press ENTER
> and have it do them all without any more work.
> 
> Is there a *Linux* program that can do this?
> 
> I've read something about gimp doing some scripts.
> Is that a possibility?  I'll read up on gimp if that is a
> good answer, but I don't want to go chasing my tail with
> gimp if it's not able to do this.
> 
> For an example of a page where I made the thumbnails manually, 
> go to:  http://kalamazoolinux.org/~bruce/wildlife.html
> and click on "Hummingbirds".  That's only 30 pictures.
> I have 116 pictures of the Tall Ships leaving South Haven . . .
> 
> BTW, for PHP users, the hummingbird page is a PHP script that I
> supply a couple parameters to, like the number of pictures, and
> it creates the entire web page automatically.  I can post a copy
> to the phpsig list if anyone is interested. 
> 
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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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