Problem : I need to take a bunch of mixed images of jpg and png origin and convert them to a PDF file. Solution : convert all to one file type, then convert them all to a single PDF and THEN shrink the PDF to a normal size…. tools needed : imagemagick, ghostscript, bash/zsh and…
Linux Code snippet. Ever wated to batch create thumbnails? “musclecarr” posted this bash script to create thumbnails of all images of a specific type. It uses imagemagick and specifically the convert command. minor modifications done to it and comments added for easy understanding, here it is : #!/bin/bash # take argument or use current dir…
I have close to 3000 images in a folder and needed to know exactly how many for a stupid bet I made. I dont feel like counting them! there must be something in the linux world to make this easier…. well there is. simple extension of the ls command. my directory is called images but…
every now and again we need to take a bunch of file names from a folder and output then into a single file. sometimes with markup around them. Well there’s always ls. ls > test.txt this nets you the following in a file: 0.png 1.png blockcontent_h.png blockcontent_s.png blockcontent_v.png blockheader.png what if you want markup around…
