[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to convert 120 tiffs to jpegs, while changing the color > space to srgb. Is there a way to do this as a batch process > rather than one at a time?
The 'convert' program that is part of the ImageMagick suite is a batch-oriented, command-line tool for this sort of transformation. If you're using Linux, obtaining that and getting it running should be trivial; I don't know for sure how much or how little headache installation is under Windows or MacOS -- it _should_ be trivial there as well but I haven't done it myself, as I do 99.5% of my command-line stuff in Linux (and lately more than 70% of my GUI tasks as well, but that's subject to phase-of-moon fluctuations, sunspots, and which house Mercury is in). <http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php> It looks like[*] it'd be: foreach foo (*.tif) convert $foo -colorspace SRGB `basename $foo .tif`.jpg end in csh/tcsh (under Linux or MacOS) -- someone else would have to give you the sh/bash/ksh syntax. If a Windows "command prompt" window still works the way I'm used to, you might get away with simply: convert *.tif -colorspace SRGB *.jpg there, depending on just how 'native' the Windows port of ImageMagick is. (If it acts more like a Unix program trying to cope with a Windows environment, instead of acting like an MS-DOS program, then it might be easier to do "dir /w > temp.bat" and then edit temp.bat to be a hundred and twenty 'convert' commands, unless you already have Cygwin installed, in which case you can just fire up a bash or tcsh window under Windows.) -- Glenn [*] Caveat: I've never used the -colorspace option to 'convert', so I'm not 100% certain I've understood this right. But "-convert SRGB" didn't give me an error message when I tried it on one file just now, so it at least does _something_ ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
