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From: Chris 
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Subject: Re: Looking for a Ubuntu equivalent of XP sending picture by email
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In article , Toby 
Newman  writes
>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.

Hmmm ... someone competent, like you, probably could do that.
And I envy you.  I wish I could.
That does sound the absolutely best solution.
I wonder if enough people would find it useful for someone like you to 
be kind enough to publish such a script?
-- 
Chris
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