in reply to thumbnails

If you are running on a UN*X box you might want to try to use convert - it can do everything the ImageMagick module can (and more) and is just run on the shell - heck, you can even build a shell script for this. If the thumbnails need to be all of the same size, thinks would look like this: 
#!/bin/zsh

a=`find $1 -type f | grep -E 'gif|jpg'` 
for img in $a  
do 
  echo "found : $img" 
  echo $img | perl -e 'while (<>) { s/(\w+)\.(\w+)$/$1\.thumb\.$2/; pr
+int $_ }'\
 | while read thumb 
  do  
    convert -scale 50x50 $img $thumb 
  done 
done

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Re: Re: thumbnails
by jlongino (Parson) on Feb 01, 2002 at 00:31 UTC
    Could you please specify the version(s) of Unix? It apparently isn't a Solaris command. Nor does it appear to be on FreeBSD.

    Update: D'oh! I should know better than to try to post a quickie from work. See my post below.

    --Jim

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      To avoid some confusion, convert is just a command-line front-end to the ImageMagick core. Image::Magick is the perl front-end to the same basic libraries. If installing the core ImageMagick stuff is out, so is convert.

      -Blake

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