On 28-Jul-06 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 17:04 +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 7/28/06, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
When sending a photo, would it be that hard to offer a resize/convert to jpeg option?
My mobile phone gets this right! If I try to send a large image, it offers the choice of full size (2 megapixels) or a 640x480 copy of the image (leaving the orginal intact in the phone).
Windows XP also does this if you right click an image and do "send to" "mail recipient" it will prompt you to make the image smaller.
And you can even do this in Linux -- if you use one of the many image applications which have an option to re-size the image (and save it under a different name).
Mind you, I don't know of a Linux email application that offers you the choice, but you can always make a conscious decision to do it before sending the email so that the reduced image is ready and waiting.
I like using the 'display' program from ImageMagick for this (and for other things). You can choose the new pixel dimensions as you like (though of course it's ususally wise to preserve the original aspect ration, which you can determine from the "Image Info".
Best wishes, Ted.
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