*.jpg's=>smaller*.jpg's on the command line 

> Does anyone know of a utility that will do something like 'reduce-by-25%
> *.jpg'
  1. Install the pbm utilities (Poskanzer's Bitmap)

  2. Install the jpeg library/utilities

  3. djpeg foo.jpeg | pnmscale 0.25 | cjpeg -optimize > foo.25.jpeg

David K. Drum

*.jpg's=>smaller*.jpg's on the command line 

djpeg -g foo.jpg | cjpeg -q 10 > small.jpg

This decompresses to GIF and then feeds the GIF into cjpeg to make a JPG of pretty low (in this case, 10) quality (hence small size).

cjpeg and djpeg are freewares available in the usual places - they are installed by default on RH Linux. You still have to play with it a bit to figure out a good internal format to use.

Kenny McCormack

*.jpg's=>smaller*.jpg's on the command line 

Use John Cristy's ImageMagick.

http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html

noble

documented on: 1999.09.13

PDF / RTF 

http://www.mail-archive.com/aseek-users@lists.asplinux.ru/msg01119.html

Good ps to text (or html) converter is here: http://www.nzdl.org/html/prescript.html There are also links to other such tools.

As for converter from rtf or doc format, I know of word2x: http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/ antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html unrtf: http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html

pkg:psutils 

why 

Changing the paper size for PS files 

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
>
> I got a PS file that is for A4 paper. Is there any way that I can
> print the A4 ps file nicely on my letter ps printer?

How about psresize?

psresize -PA4 -pletter in.ps > out.ps

If you do not have psresize, it is part of Angus Duggan's PSUtils

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/psutils/

Tim

ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/rawhide.redhat.com/i386/RedHat/RPMS/psutils-1.17-10.i386.rpm

gocr 

Info 

Description 

GOCR is optical character recognition software. It converts PNM files into ASCII files.

Source 

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gocr/

Qui-ne-faut 

Info 

Description 
This is the first alpha release of Qui-ne-faut, an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) filter written for gcc. It extracts individual characters
by computing their outlines, providing a very robust, multi-purpose
bitmap-to-outline routine, easily reusable. Characters feed a classification
tree to perform actual recognition.
Features 
File size 

Source 

http://freshmeat.net/projects/qui-ne-faut/

Comments 

get passwd and username 

awk -F: '{print $1 "," $5}' /etc/passwd | grep '^0' | perl -pe 's/^/6/; s/.,/\n/'
!! | sed '1d'
!! | head

documented on: 1999.10.22

ivt2html 

Convert Microsoft Infoviewer format (.ivt) to HTML. http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2630.html

Version: 1.1.0