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Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> On 8/18/2011 6:18 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> I have 1200 square PNG images of national flags in various sizes. I
>> would like to crop them to rectangles. I thought of writing a
>> one-shot java utility for the purpose, then I wondered if I would be
>> reinventing the wheel. Suggestions?
>
> ImageMagick can do a lot of stuff with image manipulation, especially
> combined with some simple shell scripts.

Seconded. The learning curve for the fancier
stuff is nasty though.

  BugBear