hello!!

can anyone recommend a command line utility which i can use from shell that is fast and easy on server resource as we want to use this as automated conversion for images ppl upload to our server.

should handle tiff to jpeg conversion (preferably others too)

if possible is there something like this in system already so i dont have to install ? if no its okay

i have redhat enterprise 3 on the server

thank you

freebies

Hi freebies,

maybe you have imagemagick installed. Just try "convert foo.tif foo.jpeg" at command line. It's a very simple but powerful tool I use for converting images to another format.

Cheers,

titopoquito

ya thanks, just found that and installed.. seem very cool.

do you know if its fast, suitable for using for web stuff ?

Sorry, I don't know that. Never compared it to other command line tools and I used it just to convert no more than 20 images at one time on my Workstation. But I read more than one time about it, I can't remember another program being recommended.
Let's wait for other responses

titopoquito

See

http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001.../browse/objweb

Sheng-Chieh

Hi,

I usually recommend the netpbm toolkit. It is very modular, hence very flexible, although not very fast.

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

thanks, but speed is the key for me. i'll see how much load imagemagick will do. but seem quite fast so far.

Hi,

I run an amature photography website (just for fun, nothing serious) and I use a system called coppermine (it's OSS, on sourceforge I believe). It uses Imagemagick by default, and so does another system I have tried in the past (I think it's just called photogallery).

From what I've read and heard people say Imagemagick is the more robust package, as opposed to netpbm.

Apache also has some internal libraries for building images, but from what I hear they are slow, hard on the server, and generally a bit sucky.

Hope that helps a bit.