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   From: Frank    
   Subject: Re: Looking for a Ubuntu equivalent of XP sending picture by email -   
   converson script   
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   On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:43:36 +0000, Chris wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Hey Chris,   
      
   Here's a script -    
      
   for f in *.[jJ][pP]*[gG]   
   do convert -scale 640x480 $f ${f%%.[jJ][pP]*[gG]}_sm.jpg   
   done   
      
   just drop it into a file (e-mail_format_picture or   
   whatever) using any editor,    
      
   chmod 755 that file so it can be executed   
   directly,    
      
   place it in any /bin directory that's in your path (/bin   
   /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /opt/bin whatever)    
      
   and whenever you execute it in a directory where your JPEG images for   
   mailing are located will scale all named jpg or JPG or jpeg or JPEG to no   
   greater than 640 height and 480 width, renaming them whatever they were to   
   start ending in _sm.jpg indicating small and ready to mail.   
      
   You could add an additional piece of code to wrap this in a mailing   
   command but that's overkill.  Again, ImageMagick has to be on your system   
   since that's where the convert function comes from.    
      
   Frank   
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