Quoting Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com>: > 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! look around for mass-image-resize. does just what you want d >>> >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- In the world?s anti-Bush zones it is fashionable to regard him as an imperialist redneck of limited intellectual capacities. -- George Ross in Le Monde Diplomatique