How to convert or resize image file using ImageMagick

 convert or resize image using ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a free software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. ImageMagick is available for Linux , Mac and windows.

You can download ImageMagick from http://www.imagemagick.org


For Ubuntu user can install ImageMagick using

sudo apt-get install imagemagic

For CentOS user can install ImageMagick using

yum install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel

suppose you have image.png file and you wanted to convert it in to jpg format. You can do this with command line with following command

convert  image.png image.jpg

if you have bunch of file suppose .png and  you wanted to convent it in jpg  format then put all .png file in one new directory and go to new directory path and execute following command to convert all png format file in to .jpg format

convert *.png new.jpg

and if you wanted all your jpg file in single one pdf file then you can use following command

convert *.png imagefile.pdf

and if you wanted to create single gif file of all your  jpg file you can do this using command

convert *.jpg newimage.gif
convert -delay 20 *.jpg  newimage2.gif

you can also convert your avi file in to gif  format using command

convert -quiet -delay 1 vidio.avi vidio.gif 


You can resize image by using resize option. for example

convert image.jpg -resize 50% half_image.jpg

 

you can do lot of task using command line with ImageMagick

How to type in Marathi in Windows 7

Step by Step how to type in Marathi in Windows 7

In windows 7 you can type and save your document in Marathi without installing any third party software. You can do this by adding Marathi support in your windows 7. Do the following step to install (enabled ) support for Marathi typing.

Go to Start and select control Panel. It will open new windows of Control Panel. 

In Control Panel select Region and Language option

 This will open new windows of Region and Language. Select Keyboards and Language tab in Region and Language windows.

  Then select Change Keyboards button in Region and Language windows.

This will open one child window of Text Services and Input Languages. In the windows of Text Services and Input Languages in General tab select Add button in Installed services option to install supported language in our case Marathi.

In the list select Marathi (India) and in keyboard select keyboard as Devanagari and/or Marathi and select OK button to add input language.

Then select Apply button then OK to close the windows and then close all the open windows. Now Marathi keyboard is enabled on your system. you can now type in Marathi by selecting language and kayboard layout from language bar at bottom on taskbar.

Now open any word file or notepad select MA from language bar and type in your own language (Marathi) :-)

 If you are not familiar with Marathi keyboard as me use on-screen keyboard.

 To open on-Screen windows just simply type on-screen keyboard in Start>  search program and file box and then select on-screen keyboard. this will open on-screen keyboard