* Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> [08-09-11 10:32]:
> * Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> [08-09-11 10:30]:
> > * kitandkaboodle <[email protected]> [08-09-11 02:42]:
> > > Imagemagick is a good tip, and I've just been looking into it, but it
> > > is a bit daunting since I've not much experience in command-line.
> > > If I wanted to convert all the jpgs in a given folder to a file size
> > > of say maximum (or exactly) 200kb, do you know what command I could
> > > type?  Or is there another way to dramatically cut filesize for all of
> > > them in a given folder?
> > 
> > > (If a command for a whole folder doesn't work, then the jpgs do have
> > > names in numerical order, like p100161.jpg for example.)
> > 
> > cd into the subject directory
> > 
> > for i in *.jpg; 
> >   do convert -resize 1024x768 $i new.$i;
> >   done
> > 
> > file p100161.jpg will be output as
> >      new.p100161.jpg
> > at 1024x768      
> 
> WARNING:  will convert ALL *.jpg files in the current directory

And, after further *close* attention to your request, I don't know how to
resize to a particular space-on-disk as 200kb, only by dimention at a
particular pixel screen resolution.  There are many more parameters
available to "stack" onto the example above that will further define the
output image.
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