Hya,

I am looking for command line script to change resolution of png files.

I have a lot of png files to change resolution for quality printing. I know how to do using application program, but too many.

These are what I have: 1280 x 960 png files (povray output), when I open them photoshop or some other applications, they are 72dpi.
I need these files to be 600dpi. Output format does not have to be png, but prefer to be png.

I checked libpng.org, sf.net... but no luck yet.

I appreciate any suggestion.

Happy Penguins!

How will increasing 72dpi to 600dpi increase the quality of these png's? The pictures were taken at some resolution. You can't really add resolution to a picture.

Think about it the other way. Pretend you have a picture at 600 ppi (pixels per inch). You want to reduce the resolution to 300 ppi. Basically what the program does is remove every other pixel. If you tried to go from 300 to 600 ppi, you have to add pixels. But what color should each pixel be? Should it just average the adjoining pixels? Should it just split the pixels so that there are twice as many? By increasing resolution, you're trying to add data points.

Hi -

ImageMagick is your friend:
http://www.imagemagick.org

PS:
pljvalez is correct on both counts:
a) You can't "increase resolution" beyond what the picture was originally taken yet (let's not talk about image processing techniques - that's really not relevant to this discussion)

b) "dpi" (and, for that matter, "ppi") can be confusing. In this context, they really don't necessarily "mean" anything!

Here's a link that might help clarify:
http://www.michaelfurtman.com/pixels.htm

But if you want to make the image "smaller" ... or "larger" ... or you want to "sharpen" it - or any of a million other things - then ImageMagick is definitely your tool!

Hya,

Thanks, paulsm4. I found the solution in imagemagick. It wasNo data loss. Perfect.

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