[TheForge] Re: OT Question on Photo-Display Software

[Darrell]

Picasa2 is another free program. It searches the hard drive and displays 
your pictures as thumbnails and has some pretty good editing.
Darrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: OT Question on Photo-Display Software


>
>> I think the best "fix" would be some software that would pick up a
>> directory of photos (.jpg) and reduce each one to no more than web-page
>> quality.
>
> If the NetPBM package is available for your OS, that should do it.
>
> NetPBM is a large collection of small programs, each one of which does
> a single operation (e.g., convert to another format, rotate,
> gamma-adjust, scale etc.) on an image.  This lends itself to
> scripting.  It's been around for years, gradually adding more
> capabilities.  I've used it under MS-DOS, works great under
> Linux/Unix.
>
> Something like:
>
>   foreach foo (*.jpg)
>      jpegtopnm $foo | pnmscale 0.2 | pnmtojpeg > small-$foo
>   end
>
> should work, translated to whatever scripting language you have
> available.
>
> - Mike
>
>
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