[Hidden-tech] auto conversion of photo files to smaller size

[Roger Williams]

ImageMagick is so integral to so many web applications that it's pretty
well supported on Windows. I think that the commands (e.g. convert) are
implemented in EXE files.

-- 
Roger Williams <roger at qux.com>
Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation

On 6 Mar 2015, at 21:06, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

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> At Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:18:23 -0500 Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Short of importing photos I took on my better camera into Photoshop 1 by 
>> 1 and reducing the file size (so I can include the photos in a report 
>> document (Word, PDF) without making the report file huge), is there an 
>> automatic way I can select all the photo files and resize them?
> 
> 
> Well, under Linux, I use a program called convert (part of the ImageMagicK
> package), a command line utility commonly installed on Linux system (and very
> likely available for MacOSX as well), in a simple looping shell script. It is
> *possible* that the ImageMagicK package has been ported to MS-Windows, in
> which case it would then be possible to create a BAT file to do this as well.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir qsize
> for x in *.jpg; do
>  convert $x -geometry 50%x50% qsize/$x
> done
> 
> The above (BASH) script will convert every JPG file to 1/4 (1/2 as high by 1/2
> as wide) of its original size and store the result in the subdirectory named
> qsize.
> 
>> 
>> I should have a better idea of how to manage this, but I don't.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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