On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:41:55 -0600, Kumar Appaiah (a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in) wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:40:37AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > I want to resize jpeg images (in order to create thumbnail images for a > > > webpage) from a bash script and know that I can use 'convert' from the > > > imagemagick package to achieve this. This will be run on a (headless, > > > no X) lenny/armel NSLU2 "slug". > > > > GIMP ships with a second binary called gimp-console. This binary is a > > console-only version and behaves as if gimp was called with > > the > > --no-interface command-line option. > > I think you refer to gimp-console. Does it solve the OPs problem of > Imagemagick being too heavy? I suspect that installing Gimp will also > pull in several X and GTK+ based dependencies which offer little value > on a Slug... Thank you for the suggestion Paul, but you are right Kumar: Gimp wanted to pull in nearly 70 packages totalling 107MB. > As for other options, I cannot think of any myself. However, I suspect > that while Imagemagick convert will stress your SLUG a little, it > might still do the job for you as long as you don't run much else on > the Slug... As it happens I have gone ahead and installed imagemagick and it works fine. I just wanted to avoid installing what seems like unnecessary packages. They won't actually be doing anything and I am not short of disk space, so really it does not matter at all I suppose. The slug is kept busy running motion (movement detecting with a webcam) and saving the resulting images. Using convert from imagemagick to reduce these images for viewing on a webpage will only add a bit more stress ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org