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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making thumbnail images under FreeBSD ? Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:01:04 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 17 Message-ID: <52aaq0$p6a@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <529gq7$682@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.105 (bkogawa) dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman) writes: [deleted question: how can I create thumbnail images using xv or some other program? ] > I figured xv should be able to do this, but I can't figure out how >to just tell it to do at commandline. I don't want an x windows interface >because I want to invoke this from within a perl script when the directory >index files are created. I think xv will do this, but I'm almost sure ImageMagick will do it. after installing ImageMagick, use either convert or mogrify to do it (read the man pages). both will run from the command line. bryan -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>