[SOLVED] autotrace batch processing

laulau · 03-30-2012, 04:31 AM

Hi.

I have been using

Code:

autotrace input.png --output-file output.svg

to convert single .png to .svg

how do I convert more than one file at the time? I have 200 .png in one folder that I want to convert to .svg.

Lars

Snark1994 · 04-01-2012, 07:40 AM

Should be quite easy:

Code:

for i in *.png; do
autotrace "$i" --output-file "$(echo $i | sed 's/.png/.svg/')"
done

That will take all the files in the current directory (e.g. 1.png, foo.png, bah.png) and convert them to .svg (writing them to 1.svg, foo.svg and bah.svg respectively)

Hope this helps,

laulau · 04-01-2012, 03:43 PM

thank you Snark1994!

It worked fine.

I am new to the command line, but I shall get into it more when I have some time.

I am using it as an "effect" on a video, like this:

Code:

ffmpeg -i fro.avi image%d.png

Code:

for i in *.png; do autotrace "$i" -despeckle-level 14 --output-file "$(echo $i | sed 's/.png/.svg/')"; done

Code:

for i in *; do rsvg-convert $i -o `echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done

Code:

ffmpeg -i image%d.png -vcodec huffyuv test.avi

and it gives a really nice cartoonie look to the video, when I know more about what I am doing, I shall put togheter a script of it, so that it deletes all svgs and pngs in the end.

Thanks again!