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[David Vanderson]

Chris,

What shell are you using?  I think that ^ is treated specially 
sometimes.  The command works as given for me in bash, but on Windows I 
believe you need:
convert image.jpg -resize 480^^ imageout.jpg
or
convert image.jpg -resize "480^" imageout.jpg

Thanks,
Dave

Chris Miller wrote:
> Thanks, but your suggestion didn't work the way I intended.  I supplied an image that was 5540w x 1697x (a panoramic), and did this command:
>
> convert image.jpg -resize 480^ imageout.jpg
>
> What I got was an image that was 480w x 147h, so it took the LARGER of the two dimensions and scaled it to the size I asked for.  I wanted it to take the SMALLER, and give me an image 1567w x 480h.
>
> If on the other hand my image was 1697w x 5540h, then I would want the same command to set the width to 480 instead of the height, yielding an image 480w x 1567h.
>
> Can IM do what I'm asking?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ...Chris.
>
>
>
>   
>> So, I want to say "resize the smaller of the two dimensions to the size I specify, and keep the aspect ratio the same".
>>
>> Can I do that?
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:38:55 -0700
>> From: Fred Weinhaus <fmw at alink.net>
>> Subject: [magick-users] Minimum dimension on resize?
>> To: magick-users at imagemagick.org
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>> Yes, see the ^ modifier for -resize
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>> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#resize
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>> convert inputimage -resize 100^ outputimage
>>
>> will resize the input image so that its mimimum dimension will be 100 
>> and its maximum dimension will be larger but in proportion 
>> maintaining aspect ratio.
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