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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:05:07 -0500
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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.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth