On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:25:18AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > > >I combined part of another script I used for image processing into getpix. > >With the revised getpix script, you can now resize and zip the images > >after you copy them to your hard drive. This is handy for me because it > >makes it really easy to get pix into my online gallery. > > > >I put the script at http://clevername.homeip.net/getpix if you'd like to > >give it a spin. > > > >Todd > > > > > Todd thank you for this, I'm very interest as you can see. > I'm a bit busy right now, but I will come back again if I may, > should I get stuck. > Also my son inlaw has the Camera right now. > > I don't know whether you are into this, but I need some way of reducing > the size of up to 8 pictures at a time so that they all go on one A4 > sheet of > photopaper. > None of the programmes I've seen so far seem able to do this, and since > my printer requires A4 , and when I print the pictures off I don't want > a single > A4 picture most of the time, it varies sometimes A5, A6, or what ever , but > the linux progs seem unable to manipulate the size. Well, I must qualify > that > remark, progs like gimp can certainly resize, no problem, but I need to > combine the resized files so that so many fit on one sheet of A4, and send > the job to my printer. Anyway you get the idea. > I guess this will all come to gqview and gphoto in due course. > > I just though you might have a clever bash script way of doing the job. > > John
Just as an experiment, try this and see how it works for you. Assuming your images have a 3:4 aspect ration, are horizontal, and are at least 200dpi, at the command line in the same directory as the images you want to print, do: montage -geometry 764+5+5 -background white -density 200x200 -tile 2x4 image1 . . . image8 composite.jpg It might be easier to put 8 pictures in a folder and instead of typing each image name, just do a "*.jpg". Try printing the composite.jpg, or at least looking at it. I'm not sure how close to the edge your printer can print, this puts a 5 pixel border around the images, meaning that adjoining pictures have 10 pixels of separation. >From what I can tell, A4 paper is 8.27"x11.69", which at 200dpi is 1654x2338. The resulting composite.jpg is 1548x 2336, which is purty durn close. HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater
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