At Thu, 07 May 2009 11:16:24 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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 ? > > picasaweb will autoscale them to a variety of sizes and show them to the > user sized to his screen. for instance, my pictures of an astronomy > campout I went to last fall... > http://picasaweb.google.com/jhn.pierce/CalStar08 Or just install ImageMagicK and use convert and zip in a script: #!/bin/sh mkdir VGA for im in *.jpeg; do convert $in -geometry 640x480 VGA/$in done zip BogotaVGA.zip -r VGA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/