[magick-users] resize

[Fred Weinhaus]

Not sure what you mean by "surface area".

IM has a resize option @ that will try to keep the area as specified.

  see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#resize 
and http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#pixel



>Hi there,
>
>I want to scale a folder full of images down... but I want the surface 
>area of each image to end up about the same.
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>Scale is no good, because the originals may be of different sizes.
>Resize doesn't help because it tries to fit everything into a box of 
>the given size.
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>The reason for this requirement is that when creating previews that 
>will be viewed one at a time (like a slide show), rectangular format 
>images tend to look a lot smaller than square one's.
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>Thanks,
>Noel