(Ted Harding) wrote:
On 08-Dec-05 Jim Rippon wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
What's a quick and easy tool for resizing (as in changing the default screen size) of a Jpeg file? I have some scanned images that I want to display smaller on web pages and, although gimp will do it, it does seem a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
It would be nice to be able to just say something like:-
someProgram -x 400 -y 200 <old.jpg >new.jpg
Going further, is it easy/possible to change the size of an image according to the size of the browser window being used? I use a 1600x1200 display at home so a 400x200 image will be quite small really but if anyone looks at the same page on (say) 800x600 it's going to be a bit on the large size.
Chris,
How about ImageMagick's convert program:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
convert old.jpg -size 400x200 new.jpg
And don't forget to have a look at all the options in "man comvert" for enhancing/smoothing/etc (you may need to look up "man ImageMagick" to get explanations of some of them).
Ted.
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My "man convert" page says "For more information about the convert command, point your browser to" with links to the online docs. "man ImageMagick" doesn't come up with much more in the way of an explanation of the options available.
"convert --help", however, displays all the options available along with brief descriptions, but beware this is many, many pgup's long!
Jim