Re: [Plug] image conversion

[Mental <mental@neverlight.com>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:45:51AM -0500, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There are a lot of command line graphic image conversion utilities available in
> Linux.  Depending on the distribution that you have will determine what packages
> you have to install.
> 
> For the Debian system:
> 
> libjpeg-progs is the package.  Plus you might want to install the png packages
> which also manipulate graphic files.
> 
> Nicolai Rosen wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody know of a command line utility that I can use to convert images
> > (specifically jpeg to bitmap) under Linux? I don't want X to be involved in
> > any way. I need to be able to do the conversion just from the command line.
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Check out imagemagic. The convert command will do exactly that. 
convert foo.jpg foo.bmp works fine. Good for commandline mass conversions as well
as resizing and thumbnail generation.

Mental
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