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Re: cropping images

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On 22/08/11 14:36, bugbear wrote:
> Nigel Wade wrote:
>> On 20/08/11 01:14, Roedy Green wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:48:06 +0200, Thomas Richter
>>> <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
>>> who said :
>>>
>>>> I pointed you to a pair of two utilities which do that rather nicely
>>>> and
>>>> cost $0. Where is the problem?
>>>
>>> they don't run under windows,
>>
>> apparently they do:
>> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows
>
> The utilities posted by Thomas were pngtopnm, pnmcrop
> which are part of the netpbm suite,
> not ImageMagick.

Ah, my mistake. Unfortunately I'd been following this thread last week 
when ImageMagick was suggested by several people. The actual apps. 
suggested by Thomas had been trimmed from this sub-thread, and I'd 
mistakenly assumed they were referring to ImageMagick.

>
> It appears (quick google) that netpbm was runnable on windows at
> one stage, and may still be.
>
> However, since netpbm is essentially built on
> the principle of pipelining the components
> together, Unix is very much its natural habitat.
>

Probably so. I've never used them. I tend to stick to GIMP and 
ImageMagick when I need to do image manipulation on Linux.

I still think Roedy would be best served by installing ImageMagick. If 
not on Windows, then in a Linux virtual machine hosted by Windows. I'm 
sure that it would be more productive in the long run than testing more 
and more Windows utilities that promise everything, yet deliver very 
little. It's also not going to carry a virus/trojan payload - 
downloading and installing random Windows utilities off the 'net is a 
route to perdition.

-- 
Nigel Wade

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cropping images Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-18 16:18 -0700
  Re: cropping images Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2011-08-19 01:49 +0200
  Re: cropping images Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-18 17:34 -0700
    Re: cropping images Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-08-19 11:28 +0100
      Re: cropping images Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-19 17:13 -0700
    Re: cropping images Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2011-08-19 21:48 +0200
      Re: cropping images Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-19 17:14 -0700
        Re: cropping images Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-08-22 13:50 +0100
          Re: cropping images bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-08-22 14:36 +0100
            Re: cropping images Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-22 10:12 -0400
            Re: cropping images Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-08-22 15:13 +0100
              Re: cropping images bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-08-22 16:19 +0100
  Re: cropping images Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-18 21:05 -0500
    Re: cropping images bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-08-19 09:09 +0100
  Re: cropping images Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-18 20:29 -0700
    Re: cropping images Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-18 23:52 -0700
    Re: cropping images Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-08-19 11:36 +0100
      Re: cropping images Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-19 09:27 -0700
  Re: cropping images "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-19 07:31 -0400

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