Hi Gimp-user,

This is sort of a hypothetical question... are there any Linux tools, Gimp or additional, that can do "smart" cropping?

I'm writing a script that will change the height and width and maintain aspect ratio for NTSC TV (based on info I read at scantips.com and other, plus personal testing). I change the width to 576, and if the height is then greater than 480, I make it 480. I'm using Bash and ImageMagick. When I do a ImageMagick "identify -verbose" there is tons of info he knows, including border info. Now I don't know what this all means and have to do some reading, but that got me thinking :-) that perhaps tools can make certain assumptions about light and dark. All the pictures have white borders. Even if 80% are successful, it would be something. I started using ImageMagick directly when I needed to batch convert xcf to jpgs so it is something I know something about and can easily put into a Bash script, and it comes up a lot while googling.

Thank you.

Hi,

This is sort of a hypothetical question... are there any Linux tools, Gimp or additional, that can do "smart" cropping?

VD> If you mean cropping an image by cutting off the white borders, just VD> try this in GIMP: Image > Autocrop Image.

D'oh! Did I miss that one.

I just tried it on one of the photos and it doesn't do anything. The image is the same, there is no message in the status bar, and nothing in the undo. HHHhhhhm... I went to the online manual, 9.18, and it seems pretty straight forward. Is there some trick or gotcha about it?

Thank you.