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From: Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I compress jpeg files?
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:35:44
Message-Id: 3dc9085f-cf8e-89ac-413f-aab2ba4f3a90@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How do I compress jpeg files? by Alan Mackenzie
1 jpeg is already compressed. You can reduce its size by resampling
2 to lower resolution and/or higher-level lossy compression. In both
3 cases you are going to loose quality...
4
5 Jarry
6
7 On 18-Sep-20 15:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
8 > Hello, Gentoo!
9 >
10 > I've a number of jpeg files, 17 to be precise, which are high resolution
11 > and are around 3½ megabytes each. I would like to compress them down to
12 > around 100 kb each.
13 >
14 > I'm sure this is possible, if tedious, in gimp, somehow, but I can't for
15 > the life of me work out how (since it's years since I last did this).
16 >
17 > What is the best way (minimal learning, scriptable if possible), to do
18 > this?
19 >
20 > Thanks in advance!
21 >
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