[TriLUG] thumbnails with Gimp?

[John Matthews]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:27, 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.

As suggested by others, use convert and a small shell script. I made one
last night for my own purposes if you want to use it.

The option you pass to convert is "geometry". As in:
convert -geometry 128x96 foo.jpg foo-thumb.png

Note that the above example also does jpg -> png conversion
automatically, by smartly parsing the filename extensions.

Regards,
matt

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