Re: Anybody using GIMP for unix image batch processing?

> From: ott89@t-online.de (Helmut Ott) > Subject: [PHP] Anybody using GIMP for unix image batch processing? > > Is anybody using GIMP http://www.gimp.org > for image generation or especially for batch image processing. > The samples I saw are absolutely great see > http://www.cooltext.com which is done in GIMP. Its a GNU project > anyway. But no single mention in OHP archive, only in Perl. > I want to run batch image compression, resizing and so. > The GIMP homepage says its elaborate scripting features allow to do this and even trickly > anything you might imagine doing with images?! > > Helmut GIMP is one of the seven wonders of the open source world. Having said that, though, there are simpler tools that can be used for much of what you'd want to do for batch image processing. In the UNIX world, the netpbm toolkit still can't be beat. People will talk of ImageMagick as well, though that takes second seat to netpbm in our experience. Cheerio, Rick Rodgers