Re: resize pictures received by mailserver
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 04:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:37:18 -0500, Christofer wrote in message
> <[🔎] CAOEVnYuJsMFtAQze+suzcvhjnvk48HnVjLNGOFZG5bxu-xV9PQ@mail.gmail.com>:
>
> > > It's much simpler to do:
> > >
> > > mogrify -resize '800x600<' testimage.jpg
> > >
> > > or to limit it to 800 in any dimension
> > >
> > > mogrify -resize '800x800<' testimage.jpg
> > >
> > > (These commands preserve aspect ratio and only resize if image is
> > > greater than the given dimensions.)
> >
> > Well, color me impressed! I didn't know about that notation. That
> > certainly would have saved me a lot of pain with some shell scripts I
> > wrote awhile back for image management! I'll keep that in my bag of
> > tricks and thank you for the tip!
>
> ..I lost you guys here; is the new trick in the bag the use
> of mogrify, or is it putting the "<" in '800x600<', inside
> the single quotes, typo style like?????
>
It's the < but as that is treated specially by shells, you need to
include the argument in '' or take other precautions.
imagemagic has a wealth of options, it's well worth reading them
whenever you have an image manipulation task. [1]
--
Tixy
[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php
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