Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: cropping images Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:13:31 +0100 Lines: 47 Message-ID: <9bf6gcFi1tU1@mid.individual.net> References: <02vt479b3tn44vf8eg0gm30158oi0vpkvn@4ax.com> <9bf1k8Fd0tU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jcelQaQx41Iuj+SggHQrNQwlNXI3kg0HFvVK8ohQ0VsfUtEl77 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vY9hBeP4wBpScfD5aDJOkN9iKoY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7288 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 >>> 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