[kde-linux] ksnapshot saved file size

[Bruce Bales]

On Monday 22 June 2009 23:37:57 Dale wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > On http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=120319601431836&w=2 I asked this before,
> > but never got a useful answer. Is it true that there is no ability to
> > configure KSnapshot to make smaller files, e.g. 6- or 8-bit png instead
> > of 16- or 24-bit or whatever it now does?
>
> I think it just takes a pixel for pixel shot.  If you have a small
> resolution screen then it will be a smaller picture.  If you have a HUGE
> 1600x1200 or larger, it takes a bigger picture.  I couldn't find any way
> to configure it on mine either.
>
> I guess you could always open the one it took with Gimp and scale it
> down.  That is what I have done in the past.
>
> Dale
>
use imagemagick:

 convert picture.jpg -sample 800 picture8.jpg  to make it 800 horizontal.  

imagemagick will scale the vertical to match.
bruce