[Info-vax] simple image processing

[Paul Sture]

In article <j25i8h$i9h$1 at solani.org>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:
> > 
> > Is there any tool on VMS which can do this?  I realise that I could do 
> > it on a non-VMS system, but a) I would have to learn an application 
> > first, so I might as well learn it on VMS if possible and b) what I 
> > really want is something I can script, rather than doing it 
> > interactively in some GUI (presumably that is more likely to be found on 
> > VMS).
> 
> If it were just a few pictures good old xv would do this,
> at least interactively (don't know at the moment if it is
> scriptable). I guess there should still be a VMS version around.
> Otherwise ImageMagick comes to mind, it's not unlikely
> that a VMS version exists as well.

I can certainly recommend ImageMagick, if you can get a VMS version. 
There's an entry for it on the V80 OpenVMS Freeware CDs, but that only 
points to the ImageMagick site.

Having built it from scratch on OS X, I can tell you it's a bit of a 
beast to do.  It has a lot of dependencies, and as you resolve those, 
you come across yet more.

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/

"ImageMagick v6 Examples -- 
 Creating Thumbnails and Framing

...

One of the biggest uses ImageMagick is put to is the creation of 
thumbnails for family photo albums, sports and hobby pages, catalogs, 
and so on. Typically for use on the world wide web or in photo CDs."

-- 
Paul Sture