Reducing the size of a photo

[David Vincent]

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John Mark Walker wrote:
> Excerpts from Gilles Gravier's message of Mon Jan 21 11:28:19 -0800 2008:
>> The question is, when you do a rescale or rotate from Nautilus, how do you
>> specify things like compression level of resulting file? Algorithm for
>> interpolation when resizing?
> 
> 
> This is why I use digikam for this purpose. 

some quick googling didn't turn up an easy way to change that setting in
 nautilus-image-converter, however it did turn up this site:

http://rhosgobel.blogspot.com/2006/07/bulk-resizing-and-renaming-images-in.html

..from 2006 where the author has a similar problem.  he includes a GPL'd
script which you can use and edit, where by default the quality setting
is at 80.

hth

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