[ale] JPEG compression utility

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Bob,
> I am not a web developer so have no experience here, however, PNG would 
> be a good picture format to use for small image size and good quality.  
> Someone else on the list will tell you how to run GIMP or some image 
> conversion tool via a bash script.  Just a simple loop calling the 
> conversion program of choice is what you need.  It would be nice if 
> there is a Perl image conversion utility or module for this.

for fn in *.jpg;do
convert $fn ${fn%.jpg}.png
done

Will create *.png files for all *.jpg

> Dow
> 
> 
> Bob Kruger wrote:
> 
>> I have a bunch of jpg and jpeg files that need to go on a server that 
>> will be access with dialup.  I am looking for a good Linux based 
>> compression utility, preferably one that I can run from a bash script 
>> file. 
>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a conversion utility that will 
>> preserves the picture quality and still compresses well?
>>
>> Regards - Bob Kruger
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> 

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