Re: new rotate wish

On 01/06 11:07 , Harijs Buss wrote:
> Exactly. You would be surprised how many people (including myself) do say this 
> indeed and then re-boot in Windows.  Typical situation is e.g. when you have 
> big set of fresh digital pictures at the end of busy travelling day, and need 
> to prepare something show-able during some 20 minutes or so. 

here's what I'd do:
- create a directory called 'rotate'
- go down your list of images, and move the ones which need to be rotated, to
  the 'rotate' directory (cut away crap images, etc). (and don't think in
  terms of drag-n-drop; think "<ctrl-m>;<enter>")
- open a command line, cd to the 'rotate' directory
- use the 'display' tool from ImageMagick to rotate all the images whichever
  way you need, using a single batch command. (also resize them, or do
  whatever you like at the same time).
- mv all the images out of that dir back to the directory with all the other
  images
- use any number of simple scripts to generate an HTML'ized index of all the
  images in your directory. (I can give you several different ways to do
  this; using vi, awk, lynx, sh, or perl.)
- display the images with your web browser.

Once you've done this a couple of times, it'll take you all of 5-10 minutes;
most constrained by the time spent sorting out the images you want to keep
and the ones you need to rotate.

mind you, I realize the value of just being able to click on a menu item
after seeing 'oh, this needs to have <whatever> done to it'; for small lists
of things (or things which aren't easy to pick out in batches), it might be
more efficient that way. I just want to point out a more generalized
solution, that's far more flexible.
(for instance; substitute the 'display' stage with "for i in `ls -1
*_copy_2.jpg`; do j=(`echo $i|sed s/_copy_2//`); mv $i $j; done" if you want
to rename all the files which have '_copy_2' in the name to the identical
name without '_copy_2'.)

Carl Soderstrom.
-- 
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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