* Bob Cox (2009-01-11):
> I want to resize jpeg images (in order to create thumbnail images for a
> webpage) from a bash script and know that I can use 'convert' from the
> imagemagick package to achieve this.  This will be run on a (headless,
> no X) lenny/armel NSLU2 "slug". 
> 
> However, aptitude says that to install imagemagick requires 78 new
> packages, including x11-common, various gtk and font libraries - which
> will be irrelevant on the NSLU2.  Using the without-recommends switch in
> aptitude reduces the package count to 63 and choosing the
> 'graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat' package rather than imagemagick
> brings it down to "only" 52 packages.  This still seems quite a lot and
> includes lots of font stuff and x11-common when all I want is the
> 'convert' command.
> 
> Does anyone know of a simpler, slimmer alternative for resizing jpegs
> from the command line please?

It all depends on your needs.

djpeg (from libjpeg-progs) Currently the scale factor must be  1/1, 1/2,  1/4,  
or  1/8.

If you're looking for photo gallery,

Super basic:

<http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Photo_Gallery_with_igal_-_online_image_gallery_generator>

Good for offline creation:

<http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Photo_Gallery_with_igal_-_online_image_gallery_generator#Others_.28PPC_only.29>

-André

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