Re: how to scale down image using ImageMagick?

"Noah Spitzer-Williams" <noahsw@cyberdude.com> wrote: > I have a bunch of pictures all in ranging filesizes and dimensions. I want > to resize the ones that over 175 pixels wide to a 175 pixel wide picture > however i want the height to scale down (ie. i dont want a really thin > picture, i just want it to be what it would be if it were resized). i have > this but i cant figure out how to just scale down the width: > > c:\progra~1\imagem~1\mogrify.exe -geometry 175x30! picture.jpeg > > the '!' forces those sizes to be used but obvoiusly i dont want the height > to be 30. i want it to be whatever it should be so the picture doesnt look > flattened. I believe imagemagick has an option where you can specify a single dimension (x or y) and it will set that dimension accordingly and automatically scale the other dimension. This should be covered in the manual pages or --help output of the program. -- -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/