[TriLUG] thumbnails with Gimp? - Solved

[Greg Brown]

Thanks!  Convert works great.  You people are geniuses.  

Greg


On Monday 04 March 2002 10:40 am, you wrote:
> 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