[WEB4LIB] RE: architectural slide collection conversion

[Dennis Moser]

Another solution would be to use ImageMagick (free demo download will do 
the trick quite nicely...DAMHOK!) and take advantage of the "mogrify" 
command. Joe Bob Briggs would agree and say, "Check it out!" at :

http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/

Dennis Moser
(who has NO commercial interest in the matter since he uses BOTH IM and 
Photoshop to do this sort of thing!)

At 06:30 AM 2/7/01 -0800, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> > Since I have to create a page for each file, I have decided to use
>FrontPage
> > 2000's autothumbnail function.  It doesn't create a true thumbnail but
>just
> > puts in the image with the size automatically generated.  I know you
>purists
> > out there will not like that but this will be restricted to just our
> > students on our campus via our network.  Doing it this way will allow
>faster
> > loading of the full image as well.  It will already be in the cache.
> >
>
>Purism, shmurism.  The real problems are that: browsers do a pretty lousy
>job of resampling images, compared to Paint Shop Pro, PhotoShop, et al.;
>and you're sending enormous JPEG images over the user's network connection
>just to display a thumbnail.
>
>If Paint Shop really has no batch function, beg borrow or steal access to
>PhotoShop 5+ for an hour or two.  I occasionally have to resize a set of
>~1100 images; PhotoShop does the job in about 10 minutes.
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu