[TriLUG] thumbnails with Gimp?

That One Guy trilug at ichi.net
Mon Mar 4 10:36:37 EST 2002


On Monday 04 March 2002 10:27 am, Greg Brown wrote:
> Has anyone out there written a script using Gimp to create thumbnails of
> .jpg files?  I was hoping to find a way I could tell Gimp to create
> thumbnails for all the .jpgs in one directory. Does anyone know if this is
> even possible?  The man pages for gimp are somewhat basic.

Do you *have* to use GIMP for it?  If not, check out the ImageMagick package. 
 It comes with a program called "convert" (man convert) which may do the 
trick.  

I have a very rudementary script for doing an entire directory with convert 
if you want it.

TOG



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