Re: OT:Batch conversion of bmp to jpg

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

Hi All,

Thanks for the help so far, but now I need step two!

Reducing the scanned bmp's to gif's has reduced the archive from
about 2.1 gig to 640Meg.

I now estimate that of the remaining 640 meg, 500 meg is due to word
documents with silly graphics in the letter head that probably make
a 50K word document 500K.

In each word document there appears to be two of these, and they are
probably stored in .bmp internally to the document as well.

Is there any easy way to batch process these word documents, either
to replace the graphic instances with hyperlinks to a single
instance, or to convert the internal storage method?

Don't know enought about word docs to even guess where to start!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "big_red_frog" <anthony.tod@m...>
wrote:
> 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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