Way-back I used to be a fan of the netpbm tools (as opposed to imagemagick) - but I think either of these can do a good job of basic scaling.
However if you specificly want to create a webpage in a photo album arrangement, I had fantastic results with the "free as in beer" Jalbum software - http://jalbum.net . (Yes it is built on Java). I create a CD-ROM photo album of about 300 photos for my school reunion. The way I did this was 1. Used an EXIF tool to edit the "comment" field dircetly in the jpeg. (This way the caption you want is directly tied to the photo) 2. Organised the photos in a suitable directory structure 3. Told Jalbum to build the album using the chosen skin Hey presto, I had a nicely structured album that had thumbnails so you could select the photos you wanted, a small amount of javascript to drive a slideshow function, and the photos are scaled to fit nicely on the page and had an appropriate caption. (I also added an archive of the original unscaled images for good measure) Regards, Martin Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005 12:16 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. This doesn't seem to be > > > included in the standard Hoary installation > > > > > > Is there some program similar in Hoary that can do a group reduction? > > > > By 'reduction' do you mean scaling, or compression? If you're happy > > to keep doing it the way you have before, just install the > > imagemagick package. :-):-) > > If he means compression, this tool might be useful for JPEGs: But the imagemagic tools, and convert inparticular, are soo easy to use!! for i in *.jpg do convert $i bla bla rfm $i.new.jpg done cf. Batch mode gimp James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
