port for batch image manipulation?

[Alexander Haderer]

At 22:34 02.10.2003 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, JacobRhoden wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a good port which will simply resize a directory of 
> jpg's
> > to a specified (proportional) size?
>
>I'm pretty sure graphics/ImageMagick will do it; probably the mogrify
>command.  (It's not on this machine or I'd check...)

Yes, ImageMagick's convert command will do the job. If you downscale images 
to icons you should compare the resulting image qualtity with icons 
generated with graphics/netpbm tools (pnmscale). Another tool to scale 
images may be graphics/xv

Alexander