[plug] gimp

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:38:53 +0800, Bernd Felsche
<bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> <rpowersau at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >Can gimp be run from the command line in a script?
> 
> >Since my adventures with photoshop and jpegs, I'd like to be able to
> >dump a bunch of jpegs in a directory and get gimp to open each one and
> >resave it as a jpeg. But it's very painful using the gui.
> 
> There are plenty of command-line utilities that can do conversions
> from one format to another, scaling, rotations, and several other
> transforms. ImageMagik is a package that has all sorts of funky stuff.

As both you and Brad have correctly said, it seems a heck of a lot
easier with other tools. Mogrify seems to do just what I wanted.

Thanks guys.
 
> Why do you want to re-save a jpeg as a jpeg?

The jpegs photoshop create are sometimes unreadable in win98.

> 
> The standard jpeg package probably does a lot of what you need if
> it's scaling, quality reduction, changing comments, etc.
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Russ