[Digikam-users] how to resize image to a new and smaller formate -

[Remco Viëtor]

On Monday 09 April 2012 10:24:26 Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> I don't understand why you would use a script as Digikam appears to bring
> almost everything in a user-friendly UI.
> Can you explain why you would rather go for the 'complicate' way.

I cannot speak for Martin of course, but I use shell scripts like that usually 
in combination with other actions that Digikam cannot do (or that are not 
documented, like what the 'length' setting in the resize batch tool does 
exactly). And there are things that are just easier to do that way.

Exemple: I want square thumbnails from rectangular images, but the exact crop 
isn't important. That's two steps in Digikam: downsize so that shortest size 
is thumbnail size, then crop to make it square. With imageMagick that's one 
command. 

And shell scripts can be stored, batch queues can't afaik...

Remco