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   From: Chris    
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   Subject: Re: Looking for a Ubuntu equivalent of XP sending picture by email   
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   In article , Toby    
   Newman  writes   
   >On 2007-02-27, Chris  wrote:   
   >> Is there an elegant Ubuntu way of doing something that I do a lot with   
   >> XP?   
   >> When I want to email a photograph with XP, I right click on the picture   
   >> and select Send To - Mail Recipient.   
   >> What this does is to make a re-sized and compressed version of the   
   >> picture (without affecting the original) and then launch the default   
   >> email client, with the picture set up as an attachment in a new email.   
   >> This makes it amazingly quick and easy to email a photograph to someone.   
   >> Now, is there an elegant way of doing this in Ubuntu?   
   >> It doesn't need to be completely as easy.   
   >> Just as easy and quick as possible.   
   >> I can think of crude ways of doing it, such as using an image editing   
   >> program to resize every picture as it is put onto the computer.   
   >> But I bet there are neater ways of going on.   
   >> And I welcome ideas from the experts reading this.   
      
   >The command 'convert' will let you easily resize a file:   
   >convert -sample 1024x768 inputFile outputFile   
   >It's part of imagemagik.   
   >You could do a script which prompted you for a filename and an email   
   >address and it did the above and then emailed it for you.   
      
   Hmmm ... someone competent, like you, probably could do that.   
   And I envy you.  I wish I could.   
   That does sound the absolutely best solution.   
   I wonder if enough people would find it useful for someone like you to    
   be kind enough to publish such a script?   
   --    
   Chris   
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