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Re: [LUG] Batch image manipulations was Re: Photo management- JPEG attributes

 


Simon Waters wrote:
> Simon Williams wrote:
>   
>> AMAZING. Why was there so much enthusiasm about imagemagick when we have 
>> this!?!?
>>     
>
> Imagemagick does more, and provides a programmatic interface in lots of
> useful languages.
>
> But if it is just basic resizing, type conversion etc, I think netpbm is
>  easier, and certainly smaller.
>
> We used Imagemagick last for creating labels on images, of course
> falling foul of the need to have an appropriate set of fonts installed
> (the Ghostscript fonts). With greater power comes greater complexity.
>
>
>
>
>   
digiKam has a lot of batch manipulation stuff, resize, rename, switch 
image formats - jpg to png etc and is in general a neat photo/image 
library app
Simon

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Simon Robert
www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk


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