On Thu, May 07, 2009, John R Pierce wrote: >Lanny Marcus wrote: >> I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total >> 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there >> for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa, gThumb (not really an >> Editor but I believe it can reduce the quality of photos) and The GIMP >> installed. Is there a way I can have a photo editor reduce all of them >> to VGA size, without doing that 272 times? The people who will receive >> them are using M$ Windoze. Also, they are in a folder and it doesn't >> seem possible to attach a folder in gmail. A good way to zip them up >> in one file that can be unzipped on Windoze boxes? TIA! >> > >why not post them on a website like picasaweb.google.com (since you >mentioned picasa) and then just email the URL ? The ``convert'' program from ImageMagick will do pretty much anything you want including scaling, conversion from one image type to another, combining multiple images into PDF or fax/tif files, etc. It is far better to e-mail links to files on a web or ftp site than to send the images directly. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity -- Dennis Ritchie