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

[Martin Kaspar]

hello dear Marie, hello Remco,

many thanks for the replies and all your help - great experience to be
here. Open Source at its very best!! ;)

i can second the ideas and statements of you Remco  - and besides this, i
have to admit that i am brandnew to digikam.
So i have to do my  very first steps with Digikam and its powerful
batch-programme.

doing so  - i try to roll back my sleeves and do some first  tasks with
this nicely designed interface.  (moving ++100 images that i have
put to a batch  to another folder...

But that is described in another thread.

above all  - i love to work with Digikam - and i try to do my best to get
to know the tool well.

i am glad to have imageMagic on my computer. With that i can do some nice
things with some certain shell-scripts - alongside i am learning to use
Digikam and the batch-programme.


have a great day
greetings
martin

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>wrote:

> 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
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