Posts Tagged ‘DOS’
Joining photos together with ImageMagick
In my posts I often have a need to stitch multiple photos together in a rectangular block. I prefer to have the photos stitched together rather than uploading them as individual images as this removes the need to lay them out (using divs, tables, etc). Plus the stitched together image size is smaller than the size of uploading individual images. [...]
DOS: Get the directory name from a file path
If you need to write a DOS batch file that takes a file path as an input parameter and needs to do something to other files in the same directory as the input file then you’ll find there is no easy way to get the file’s directory name into a variable. You could pass in the directory name as a separate parameter but that seems like [...]
Converting file extensions to lower case
Recently I needed to convert a large number of photo file extensions to lower case. Doing this manually would take ages and wouldn’t be a fun job. I wrote a quick batch file to look through all the sub-directories from the one it is executed from and change selected file extensions to lower case. To use this script place the below code in [...]
Starting a group of programs from a DOS batch file
I use my computer for a variety of purposes - for example writing web content, programming, or word processing. For each of these activities I need a different set of programs to be loaded. To take one example when I'm writing or modifying web pages I need: NoteTab Pro which I use to edit the HTML files' WS_FTP Pro for uploading the [...]
Batch processing photos with DOS and ImageMagick
For my recent walking project I knew I was going to be taking lots of photos. I wanted a DOS script which would batch process the JPEG photos from my camera into the 'full sized images' (which are much smaller than the raw camera images), and the poloroid-like thumbnails. The excellent ImageMagick tool provides a way to generate poloroid-like [...]
