Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Slavko writes:

> Ahoj,
>
> Dňa Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:48:29 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman"
> <kogorman@gmail.com> napísal:
>
>> SOLVED.  Thanks to whoever gave me the clue that convert(1) could do
>> the cropping.  That and 2 bash scripts do all the work.
>
> See this
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/waldensponderings/entry/2_fer_friday_cropping_pictures_with_imagemagick31?lang=en
>
> it contains simple solution to find proper dimensions for cropping
> graphically, via GIMP, and then use them in batch script - i often use
> this for cropping e.g. VBox's screenshots, which adds some noise around
> screen ;)

In order to get the clipping coordinates, "display" from the same
package bringing "convert" can be used: press "c" and then drag the
mouse to define the region.

"display" loading is almost instantaneous.

-- 
Alberto