On Fri, 6 May 2005 14:41:11 +0100 David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every now and again I take a bucket-load of photographs, then I get > the job of organising them. To do this nicely I would like to be able > to create thumbnails of them. > > Just scaling the image isn't good enough, some images are portrait, > some are landscape, so I'd end up with thumbnails of different > dimensions that don't flow nicely. > > I'd also like to be able to pick a part of the image to focus on, e.g. > if the image is a portrait of a person I could pick their face. > > Idealy I'l like a piece of software which would present me with the > images one at a time and let me draw a bounding box (with a fixed > ratio I specify in advance) around the area of the image I want. Then > I'd like it to generate a thumbnail. > > Better yet, I'd like it to spit out the filename and the co-ordinates > of opposite corners of the bounding box on the command line so I can > pipe it into a script and scale the image on my own terms. > > Does anyone know of a tool like this? Or of any libraries (Perl > modules by preference) that would make it easy to write it? "apt-cache search gallery" looks like it has a few options. I like Gallery, since I also put the images on a public website. It has options to rotate, rename, etc. Apt-cache also shows galrey, which is command line, so you wouldn't need apache & php. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]