hi,
just try www.imagemagick.org
a great tool with much more functions than only compressing. you can rescale,
change color depth and even add filters via commandline or
perl-programming-interface (sorry, ive not yet tested)
hope that helps :)
andre
On Friday 27 April 2001 08:21, you wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am looking for some way to do this and would
> appreciate if someone could share experiences.
>
> when a user i have uploads an image from his computer
> (for a greeting card application), sometimes users do
> not know that the image is huge because they often
> just scan it.
>
> is it possible to run this uploaded file through some
> utility and compress it? i do not mean it in the type
> of a zip or rar file. i mean compression that is
> somewhat like the thing that fireworks and photoshop
> allow us to do - to save a big file as a simple JPG or
> a GIF file?
>
> any advice or other suggestions about how to do this
> are also welcome!
>
> thanks/erick
>
>
>
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