Grant wrote: > Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high > resolution scan of the album's cover. There is a new plugin for gmpc > that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV. As the huge > cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that > need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated. > I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with > them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image > to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing > it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only > allows my user and the user running gmpc is different). > > Any ideas? imagemagick comes to mind. Is there a script or even a > GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or > rotate quickly and easily?
Imagemagick would probably work (man convert). If you have gimp installed on your mediapc you could always start gimp on that and use X (depending if you allow X-forwarding in your sshd_config). Otherwise you could do like Stroller suggests (NFS or Samba). Best regards Peter K

