[Info-vax] simple image processing

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Le 13/08/2011 11:20, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply a écrit :
> In the (somewhat) old days when I used to photograph with film, I would
> ask for a CD with JPEG files.  Usually, these were in one directory and
> thumbnails were in another.  Now, with a digital camera, I of course
> still have the JPEGs (now of higher quality, of course), but by default
> don't get the thumbnails.  (I still print out almost all pictures, which
> I do at a photo shop since it is much easier and also cheaper.  Getting
> everything on a CD costs just peanuts and is easier than burning one at
> home.)  Thus, I'm looking for a quick and easy method to generate
> thumbnails.  The idea is to have a web page of thumbnails with links to
> the full-resolution pictures.  (Using HTML to shrink the image is not an
> option since the whole image still gets loaded, which takes too much
> time.)
>
> 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).
>
Python + PIL (Python Image Library)
~10 lines script to build thumbnails for a tree of directories...