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On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:38 +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> tom wrote:
> > Any of these things do automatic compression?
> > I've just been laughing at people saying that they need 50Meg BB at home
> > and then went to a web site with 'thumbnails' that were 2.8 meg images
> > sized small
> > Tom te tom te tom
> >
> >
> Yes, that is one problem that I have found while looking at this. I have
> not yet found a program which will automatically scale down the photos.
> All I need is a program to transfer the photos, scaled down in size (ie
> number of pixels), which I can *quickly* transfer to an internet site so
> that the wife can look at the photos on her computer.
>
> I think I will probably end up using k3b to transfer them to a CD which
> she can look at on her computer. Also useful as a extra backup.
>
> Neil
>
I use ImageMagic from the command line
in the dir with the images in
find . -iname "*.jpg" | xargs -l -i convert -resize 800x600 {} ./small/
works every time !
Regards
Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!)
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall
PL14 5LE
01579363386
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