[ale] JPEG compression utility

hbbs at attbi.com hbbs at attbi.com
Mon Mar 24 09:46:48 EST 2003


The ImageMagick suite is all over this.  Try "man ImageMagick" and "man convert".

- Jeff
> Bob,
> I am not a web developer so have no experience here, however, PNG would 
> be a good picture format to use for small image size and good quality.  
> Someone else on the list will tell you how to run GIMP or some image 
> conversion tool via a bash script.  Just a simple loop calling the 
> conversion program of choice is what you need.  It would be nice if 
> there is a Perl image conversion utility or module for this.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Bob Kruger wrote:
> 
> >I have a bunch of jpg and jpeg files that need to go on a server that will be 
> access with dialup.  I am looking for a good Linux based compression utility, 
> preferably one that I can run from a bash script file.  
> >
> >Does anyone have any recommendations on a conversion utility that will 
> preserves the picture quality and still compresses well?
> >
> >Regards - Bob Kruger
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