You can use the pbm stuff. It does into a pipeline
so that it works without user intervention.
eg:
cat big.tiff | tif2pnm | pnmscale -xysize 20 40 | pnm2gif > small.gif
The pnmscale program is the one that changes the size. This stuff
is in the netpbm. see:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/convert/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.Shared_ELF_bin.tar.gz
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Bob Billson wrote:
> Hmm... seems I somehow got knock off the list, so I'm sure if this post
> made it to the list the other day. If it is a repeat, I apologize.
>
> -----
> Is the list still alive? I haven't seen anything here for weeks. In the
> hope it is, I need some help. I hope someone can point me in the right
> direction.
>
> A few months ago, I set up a Linux box to act as the Internet
> gateway/mail/local Web/file server for a small local newspaper's Win95
> LAN. The paper is composed entirely on their Win95 boxes and archived on
> the server. Apache gives them a simple way to search the archives over
> the LAN. (They're most impressed with Linux's ability to stay up while
> Win95 crashes and burns.)
>
> Now they want make it easier to search for photos on the server. They
> want to create thumbsnails (JPEG or GIF) of the originals. The thumbnails
> will have http links back to the original photo. Most of their pixs are
> stored as TIFFs with occasional JPEGs and, rarely, GIFs.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions on a simple way to create the thumbnails?
> I have not had much luck locating a program already written to do this,
> especially with TIFFs. Since this will have to work inside a script
> (shell or perl, I haven't decided yet), the conversion program needs to be
> run without user help.
>
> Any ideas would be most welcome. Thanks.
>
> bob
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