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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: cropping images
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:12:49 -0400
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On 08/22/2011 09:36 AM, 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.
>
> 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.
>
I'm sure that the Cygwin environment for Windows is not for everyone
but installing a basic Cygwin and the libnetpbm certainly qualifies
as painless in my opinion.
<http://www.cygwin.com/packages/>