Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Murray Waldron I'm running Ubuntu Hoary and and would like to reduce a large amount of pictures so that I can shove them onto a webpage. In FC3 I used convert from imagemagic, I think. This doesn't seem to be included in the standard Hoary installation Is there some program

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Richard
Just use gimp. You can reduce the image resolution and increase the compression (with more loss). I often turn 1mb images into 70k ones using gimp for web pages. Basically open gimp then open the image you want to reduce File - Open Choose image file To adjust the resolution just go

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Richard Just use gimp. Not so good for batch use. :-) - Jeff -- Ubuntu USA Europe Tour: Oct-Nov 2005http://wiki.ubuntu.com/3BT They cosset us with trappings to shut us up. That way when we say 'sharecropper!' you can point to my free suit and say 'Shut up

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Richard
ooh you mean like this http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ Im surprised though they still dont have a batch job GUI tool. On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:16 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Not so good for batch use. :-) - Jeff Regards Richard Neal Obscurity is a far greater threat to

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:02, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Murray Waldron I'm running Ubuntu Hoary and and would like to reduce a large amount of pictures so that I can shove them onto a webpage. In FC3 I used convert from imagemagic, I think. This doesn't seem to be included

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Murray Waldron
Thanks all who answered my question. I meant scaling. Since emailing I have discovered synaptic, and was able to install Imagemagick, very easily I might add. (I knew switching to Ubuntu would be a good thing... ;-)) Muz Murray Waldron wrote: G'day, I'm running Ubuntu Hoary and and

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread tuxta2
Murray Waldron wrote: G'day, I'm running Ubuntu Hoary and and would like to reduce a large amount of pictures so that I can shove them onto a webpage. In FC3 I used convert from imagemagic, I think. This doesn't seem to be included in the standard Hoary installation Is there some program

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread jam
On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Ubuntu Hoary and and would like to reduce a large amount of pictures so that I can shove them onto a webpage. In FC3 I used convert from imagemagic, I think. This doesn't seem to be included in the standard Hoary

RE: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Visser, Martin
PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Convert program On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Ubuntu Hoary and and would like to reduce a large amount of pictures so that I can shove them onto a webpage. In FC3 I used convert from imagemagic, I think