Thanks Ara, I'll get Rmagick and try them out.

"Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward / fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tim Hunter wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:30:39 -0500
> > From: Tim Hunter <Tim.Hunter / sas.com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> > Subject: Re: Image conversion ...
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:47:16 -0500, "Useko Netsumi"
> > <usenets_remote_this / earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi, is there any Ruby code snippets I can use to transform my photo to
lower
> > >resolution, uniform size but maintaining aspect ration, etc ...?
> >
> > RMagick (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=rmagick) has this
> > functionality, but it's way more than a code snippet.
>
> if you have image magick installed you can also simply
>
>   mogrify -size 50x50 image.jpg
>
> do
>
>   man mogrify
>
> -a
>
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