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From: Toby Newman 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Looking for a Ubuntu equivalent of XP sending picture by email
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007  7:00:01 +0000
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On 2007-02-27, Chris  wrote:
> Is there an elegant Ubuntu way of doing something that I do a lot with 
> XP?
>
> When I want to email a photograph with XP, I right click on the picture 
> and select Send To - Mail Recipient.
>
> What this does is to make a re-sized and compressed version of the 
> picture (without affecting the original) and then launch the default 
> email client, with the picture set up as an attachment in a new email.
>
> This makes it amazingly quick and easy to email a photograph to someone.
>
> Now, is there an elegant way of doing this in Ubuntu?
> It doesn't need to be completely as easy.
> Just as easy and quick as possible.
>
> I can think of crude ways of doing it, such as using an image editing 
> program to resize every picture as it is put onto the computer.
> But I bet there are neater ways of going on.
> And I welcome ideas from the experts reading this.

The command 'convert' will let you easily resize a file:

convert -sample 1024x768 inputFile outputFile

It's part of imagemagik.

You could do a script which prompted you for a filename and an email
address and it did the above and then emailed it for you.

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