Re: convert landscape and portrait files

On Monday 27 September 2010 15:21:00 blau wrote:
> I have some dozen jpg files together, some landscape oriented, some
> portrait.
> How do I convert the jpgs, so that the width only is always (eg) 500 px ?
> 
> When I convert it as below, the longest between width/height gets
> resized to 500 px.
> 
> blau:~$ for i in *.jpg; do convert "$i" -resize 500 \
> "${i//.jpg}"-500.jpg; done

Try -resize "500x" <- you have to tell IM which (width/height) is important

m.