[LUG] Bulk conversion of Image Files

[Paul Hewson <P.J.Hewson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sorry, I forgot who the question was from originally, but the latest Linux 
Gazette (mirrored at http://linux.open.ac.uk had a 2 Cent about image magick 
and gave a link to some more relevant stuff.

HTH

Paul

>A 2 Cent About Converting Image Files
>Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:04:03 -0500
>Chris Gianakopoulos (The Answer Gang)
>Hello Answer Gang, Sometime this week, I noticed that somebody was asking
>about how to automating the Gimp so that it could convert image file formats
>from one format into another from the shell command line.
>
>I cannot remember who it was, because I lost the email, thus, I'll post this
>message and hope that the person will see my posting.
>
>The ImageMagick tools will do the trick. They have a utility called "convert"
>that can do the necessary conversions from the command line.
>
>I must give credit to the author of the article. Her name is Katja Socher, 
and >the URL is
>http://www.linuxfocus.org/LinuxFocus/English/July2001/article211.shtml. Her
>article is entitled "Do magic with images on the shell". She shows all kinds
>of cool things that can be done with ImageMagick.
>
I just stumbled on the article, and by coincidence, I was also trying to find 
a tool to convert images from one format into another. Of ImageMagick can do 
much more than convert images.

Chris Gianakopoulos

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