Semi-automatic crop pictures

[Charles E "RIck" Taylor IV]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:41 +0000, João Paulo Sousa wrote:

> But i have a problem when i want to print my pictures on a
> professional printer (like fujifilm or kodak). I have to crop or cut
> all my pictures to do not cur the heads or another important objects
> on pictures.
> With a gthumb i achieve this but it's to slow. Where i find a program
> with a semi-automatic
>  feature to to crop images with a predefined rate
> square (standard print pictures), and saves the picture on a diferent
> folder. A feature like have the "Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows
> XP" program.

Would "convert" from ImageMagick work?  You could write a small shell
script to batch process the images and save them to another directory.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick
man convert

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