RE: OT:Batch conversion of bmp to jpg

["Stuart Worrall" <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

Pint shop pro does batch processing but im not sure if the shareware
version includes it?

Thanks

Stu Worrall
stu@xxxxxxx
stuart.worrall@xxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From: big_red_frog [mailto:anthony.tod@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 July 2003 22:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] OT:Batch conversion of bmp to jpg
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Off topic I know, but this seems to be a good font of knowledge.
>
> A relation of mine, who runs an alarm installation company so maybe
> I can tap him for knowledge to feed back into this group in way of
> payback, has an achive of business information with a large amount
> of .bmp files in several subdirectories.
>
> His archive now takes about 2 gig, but at a guess we can get it down
> to about 400 meg by converting this archive to jpeg.
>
> So what we need is a good preferably free, though shareware would be
> ok as we only need to do this once, way of batch converting all
> the .bmp files to a .jpg and hence saving huge amounts of memory.
>
> The batch process will have to take a root directory and then
> replace the .bmp files with similar named .jpg files in the same sub
> directories, and thats about it.
>
> Just about everything I have trawled off the net has fallen at one
> hurdle or another.
>
> Does anyone know anything that will actually work.
>
> PS turned on my comfort system for the first time yesterday, seems
> to be pretty trick and it looks like I didn't get any wires wrong!!!
>
>