Re: OT:Batch conversion of bmp to jpg

["big_red_frog" <anthony.tod@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Paul,

Going with this, not in any preference to the others put forward,
just first one I tried that worked, seems to do the job consistantly.

All the other ones I dug up through google had quirks and
inconsistancies.

Now I will try to attack the 2 gig archive this afternoon, for
information sake I will throw the reduction up on here as a comment.

They will be very happy to get their archive down to one CD again!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@y...>
wrote:
> Try www.xnview.com
>
> It's pretty solid and supports batch processing of the kind you
mention
> quite well.
>
> It's also free :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "big_red_frog" <anthony.tod@m...>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:58 PM
> 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!!!
> >
> >
> >
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