File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

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File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

Post by Jiyahana » Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:31 am

Hello everyone,

Transforming images from one format such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc. to another. I got a png file image which is size in 8MB, the picture taken from the satellite, and I want to keep that image in smaller size for that I'm using online application such as jpeg compressor for compressing images it is good in image compression but I want to do this, through the windows command and also I want that it will convert file format from png to svg or jpeg through the windows command is it possible. Do you have any suggestion or recommendation it will appreciate.
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Re: File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:45 am

I'd investigate using ImageMagick via the command line with RunProgram.

I can't give specific ImageMagick examples to do this, but I'm fairly sure it would be able to do what you need.
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Re: File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:51 am

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Re: File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

Post by Jiyahana » Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:28 am

Dorian (MJT support) wrote:
Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:51 am
This might get you started : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10590&hilit=Imagemagick#p45051
Thank you very much for you recommendation I'm going to try this if this will work surly I'll let you know.

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Re: File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:55 am

I'm no expert on ImageMagick but managed to cobble this together, which will take Untitled.png and create Untitled.jpeg. I installed ImageMagick first.

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let>FilePath=C:\Path\To\Images
let>filename=Untitled.png
let>filenameout=Untitled.jpeg
let>IMPath=C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q16-HDRI\magick

Let>IMcommand=convert "%filepath%\%filename%" "%filepath%\%filenameout%"
RunProgram>%IMPath% %IMcommand%
And just as in the thread I linked to, this can be adapted to work in a loop and perform the same operation on every png in a folder.
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Re: File Format Conversion and compression through window command.

Post by jonathangoss » Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:06 pm

agree with Dorian there. We use the following in a loop to covert multipage tiff to PDF:

runprogram>%ImageMagikLocation%convert %varImageMagickFileNames% %workingDir%\%varOriginalFileName%
TimeStamp>%LogFileName%,RP_RESULT is %RP_RESULT% with ZERO being successful
wait>2
SetDialogProperty>Dialog22,Label2,Caption,Ran ImageMagik
wait>2
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