[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

And if you would rather work on a copy of the image instead of the
original, `mogrify` is your tool. Part of the same package and accepts
the same parameters as convert but does not alter the original image.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:34:30AM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> ImageMagik has already been offered. So I'll chime in with the kick-butt
> tool from imagemagik, the CLI command convert. It can rescale, crop,
> change to image type from * to *, it slices, it dices, and it's not as
> messy as the sledge-o-matic. It can be run by a web script to mangle
> images on the fly. I use it often for mass-mutilation, er, cropping and
> rescaling, of entire directories of images to produce thumbnails. 

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