On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:47:52AM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: > >> > >> is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA > >> scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a > >> default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the > >> mailinglist and subsequently the forum. > >> > > craigslist.org seems to do this when you upload pictures of the item > > you're selling. I'm not sure how they do it, but I imagine they use the > > mogrify command from imagemagick: > > > > mogrify -resize 800x600 somefile.jpg > > > > This will overwrite the original somefile.jpg with an 800x600 version of > > somefile.jpg > > > > This gets tricky, because what if the original is taller than it is > > wide? The above command will distort the image. > > > > No it won't. See the table at > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php#geometry: > > widthxheight Maximum values of height and width given, aspect ratio > preserved. > > You have to suffix the geometry with a "!" if you want to actually > ignore aspect ratio. > Hmm, I just tried it and you are correct. I swear that it didn't always work that way (or I'm getting old and imagining things). Anyway, thanks for the correction.
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