Re: [ALUG] Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line

Mark Rogers <mark@quarella.co.uk>

Instead I have a related question: Is there a way with imageMagick (or something else, for that matter, but commandline based) to shoehorn an image into a fixed size and shape, using a specified background colour where the height:width ratio of the image differs from the desired destination size?

I think you need to use the < operator on the resize and mogrify's -background option. If you want to use netpbm, look at pamscale and pnmpaste. Thanks for noting about convert and uploaded files. Good ideas. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask