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Update: The script now allows you to set the target width of the

pictures using the -w command-line argument.

Photos from modern digital cameras are generally so large these days that you have to shrink them to use them in a document. I do this a lot, so I automated it.

The foto4lb.zip script shrinks the files it is given to a width of 886 pixels, and shrinks the height by the same factor. It uses exiftool and ImageMagick. The name is a Dutch abbreviation of 'photo for logbook', which is what I most often use this script for. :-)

This particular width was chosen to be able to fit two photos side-by-side in the textblock of my LaTeX-formatted logbook.

To speed up the processing of multiple pictures, this script runs the conversions in parallel on all the cores that your machine has.

Note

To the extent possible under law, Roland Smith has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to foto4lb.zip. This work is published from the Netherlands.