Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I am finding that ImageMagick is very fast when there are a few missing thumbnails and very slow/several minutes when there are a lot (50+). I assume this has to do with system resources. I would like to find a way of echoing to screen what IM is doing and also find a way to limit resource use.

Here is the procedure that I wrote in VBA (ms-access or ms-excel) which regenerates missing thumbnails in folders. I have run it on over 1000 folders so it works in my application. You will need to adjust the code below a little bit to replace some of my user defined functions. Public Function MakeM...

I can get the cmd to work if I remove the path from @filename construct. The file names inside the file can have paths. That opens the possibility of making a very short shell script that CD's to the current directory (where the list of file names is) and then runs the convert command, which uses th...

Thanks for your replies. I can try putting the text file on my C: Drive for a start. The text file is being read as it echos the file names within the text file. I am trying to avoid calling Magick once per line as this would incur an overhead of starting the application each time, would it not. I c...

I am trying to create thumbnail images in a subfolder to where the photos are and I would like to specify which photos to create thumbnails for in a text file. I don’t want to generate thumbnails for all the photos in a folder as in most cases, this has already occurred. Sometimes a new photo is pla...