Photo Resize

[Mark O. Kimball]

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Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
>Hello All:
>	Does anyone know of a program or a script that reads a directory of
>jpeg files (or any picture file) and can resize them. I have a friend
>who is not computer savy. He does a news letter for an antique car club
>but cannot view a CD of jpeg photos at 1280 x 1024 (actually the sizes
>vary from approx 1024 x 768 up to 1600 x 1200) as his monitor resolution
>is only 640 x 480.
>	I would like to have a method to copy all pictures to a 640 x 480
>resolution in a new directory. I have done some manually in the GIMP,
>however, it is very time consuming. There are many pics and several
>directories. Any suggestions?

The convert or mogrify  commands which are part of ImageMagick have such
abilities. See the associated manpages (convert and/or mogrify). 

Very easy to use if you are not afraid of the command line...

Marko
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