On 05/30/2014 01:38 AM, Paul N. Lee wrote:
Hal Lane wrote:
It would be nice to have thumbnail images on my pages instead of bare links, but my current graphics program can't do that for batches of images, so I'd have to create them individually.
Try using the FREEWARE program IrfanView: http://www.irfanview.com/
Under the menu selection of FILE => BATCH CONVERSION/RENAME... Then check the box for "Use advanced options (for bulk resize...)". You can also set a new name for the output files.
Call this another vote for IrfanView - I used it for years and years on Windows of various versions and it always did a great job. The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has a batch processing capability that includes resizing, blurring/sharpening, renaming (and putting the output files in a separate folder) and specifying the output format. And a lot more image manipulation. On Linux, there are a lot of options for making image thumbnails. KDE's Konqueror web browser has an option to create an image gallery (complete with HTML and other such fripperies) but the end result always includes a folder of thumbnails that can be used separately. Another option is command line; the imagemagick collection of image processing programs can generate thumbnails, too. -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com