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Re: cropping images

From	Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: cropping images
Date	2011-08-19 11:28 +0100
Organization	Eindhoven University of Technology
Message-ID	<alpine.DEB.2.00.1108191125390.13074@urchin.earth.li> (permalink)
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Roedy Green wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:18:34 -0700, Roedy Green
> <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>> I thought of writing a one-shot java utility for the purpose, then I 
>> wondered if I would be reinventing the wheel. Suggestions?
>
> I have been googling and trying out various utilities that promise to do 
> the job, but even a $60 utility can't see to get this right.

Really? Wow.

Wait, is that 60 dollars Canadian?

> I get quite annoyed when a vendor advertises a product as free when it 
> isn't or that it will do some task when it does not even attempt it. It 
> seems there is no penalty for lying.

I guess you don't read the news much, huh.

Fortunately, there is a place which still values honesty, hard work, and 
doing the best job you can. It's called open source, and there we find:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Costs nothing, and a suitable invocation of the convert command will do 
what you want. ImageMagick is pretty simple to use for single images; it 
gets a bit more more twisted for multiple images, so you can either figure 
it out, or call it repeatedly from a batch script or something.

tom

-- 
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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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