[Gllug] converting image files

[Andy Farnsworth]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -0400, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
>  
>
>>An earlier post that listed this command:
>>    
>>
>>>for i in *.jpg; do convert -page A4 $i $i.ps; done
>>>      
>>>
>>prodded my memory for something I have been trying to do for 
>>a while now.  How do I convert a Non-Compressed TIFF file to 
>>an LZW Compressed TIFF file from the command line?  I have 
>>about 500 images that I would like to leave in the lossless 
>>TIFF format but have them take up less space.  I have tried 
>>looking in the ImageMagick docs but it doesn't seem to support 
>>this directly, you have to go to another format first.  I am 
>>sure I have just missed it somehow.  If you know the answer, 
>>please help me.
>>    
>>
>
>Are you sure IM doesn't do it ?  Certainly looks possible from the
>command line options available:
>
># convert -help | grep compress
>  -compress type       image compression type
>  -quality value       JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
>
>So how about:
>
># convert -compress LZW  source.tif dest.tif
>  
>
Image Magick does do it... exactly like you have done here.  This is me 
feeling stupid :)

Thanks!

Andy
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