[lug] Picture manipulation

[S. Luke Jones]

Terry Branaman wrote:
> I have about 500 pictures that I took using a digital camera that I want to
> put on a web site. Because the files are so large (it is a 3.1 mega pixel
> camera), I want to mung the pictures first -- I want to create a thumbnail
> sized file, and I want to create a copy with a higher compression rate
> (these are jpeg images). Is there a tool that will do this, preferably in
> some sort of batch mode (either within the tool, or in a script file)?

If you have ImageMagick, try mogrify(1). It's the heat.

A year ago or so I stumbled across "feh" (www.linuxbrit.co.uk)
and it looked like it might do the job. That guy with the book
goes on and on and on about this on his book a/k/a the web site
(http://phillip.greenspun.com).

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