On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:19:52PM -0400, "Rider, Todd M. (LNG)"
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> I would like to use gimp to programmatically reduce thousands of images.
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> Can I link in a gimp library and call some functions to do the scaling from
Not in the 1.x versions of gimp, i.e. not at all in the moment.
> a C++ program? If not can I do this in a batch mode, from the command line?
You might need to write a script.
> Is gimp the right tool for this, are there alternatives?
Are you aware of ImageMagick:
$ mogrify -geometry 50% *.jpg
This would scale all jpg files to 50% of their original size, supposedly
with the superiour result than gimp.
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