On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:25 -0400, Clyde Roby wrote: > Steffen, > > > > My DOS batch file, which runs in an MS Command Prompt window, contains > > > over 3000 lines; each line is of the following general format: > > > > > > dia -e output.png -t png input.dia > > > > If I understand Lars correctly, try > > > > dia -t png input1.dia input2.dia input3.dia > > > > to create > > > > input1.png > > input2.png > > input3.png > > > > That should drastically reduce the dia startup overhead. > > The above assumes that the created .png files are in the same > directory as the input .dia files. If the input .dia files are in a > different directory that where I want to place the created .png files, > would the following still reduce the dia startup overhead? > > dia -t png inputdir\input1.dia inputdir\input2.dia -e outputdir > > or should the command line be: > > dia -t png inputdir\input1.dia inputdir\input2.dia -e outputdir\input1.png > outputdir\input2.png
Neither will give you the desired effect. When -e is given, it is exactly the name of the output *file*. I suppose it would be a nice touch if it used the directory if such was given, but it doesn't at the moment. You'll just have to move the files after conversion. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
