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Re: Totaly OT: how to cut up pictures



on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:43:05AM +0200, Nico De Ranter (nico@sonycom.com) wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm afraid this is not realy Debian related but I'm not sure where
> to turn to otherwise and you guys seem to now everything anyway :-)
> 
> I'm looking for a (free) tool (Linux or Windows, Linux prefered ofcourse) to
> cut up an image in rows and columns. I'm writing a webinterface to 
> my ethernet switches, I have a drawing of the switch but I would like
> to be able to color the ports depending on some criteria. I figure the
> easiest way to do this is to cut up the image, create an HTMl table
> that fits it back together and fill in the correct images for the
> status of the ports.  I tried a number of image editors to cut up
> the original image but I found no program that is able the at least
> cut an image into two new images. In stead I have to select a part,
> cut it into a new image, select another piece... But I always end up
> having pieces with 1 line too much or missing :-(.  There has to be
> something outthere...

'mogrify' includes a '-crop' option which can be used to crop an impage
to a certain size.  I'd think that this could be applied
programmatically to create regularly sized pieces of a graphic.

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