[svlug] script the gimp

[Matt Billenstein]

Cool, I think this is what I was looking for...

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Matt Billenstein
http://w3.one.net/~mbillens/
mbillens at one.net

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Ira Weiny wrote:

> Matt Billenstein wrote:
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > I have a bunch of jpg images I want to resize..  I've read a little bit
> > about the scheme interface in the gimp, but I'm lost.  I'd like to use the
> > gimp -batch option with some type of input script if I could to make a
> > couple hundred images half size.  Does anyone have an example of using
> > -batch or an example of a simple script which opens an image, modifies it,
> > and then saves it?
> > 
> 
> Personally I do this all the time but I use cjpeg and djpeg.  There is a
> loss involved since you are decompressing and recompressing the image
> but Gimp will in essence do the same thing.
> 
> djpeg -targa -scale 1/2 input.jpg | cjpeg -progressive -outfile
> output.jpg
> 
> Of course this also makes the output.jpg progressive for better web
> performance.  But I am assuming that is what you are trying to do.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Ira Weiny
> iweiny at acm.org
> 
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