Converting BMP to a more usable format?

Anon

Hi there

I was wondering if there was a way with PHP or CGI or some combination of the two to convert a BMP to a JPG or GIF or something that can be used on a web page.

Thanks,

Tim

Anon

Grab ImageMagick from www.imagemagick.org. It comes with a utility called "convert" which will do just that. From php just do a system or exec call.
e.g.
<?
exec("/usr/bin/convert test.bmp test.jpg");
?>

G'luck.

Jack

Anon

This is by far not a definitive answer, but hopefully point you in some directions.

Depending on what OS you are using, you might be able to find a utility that will do what you are asking. I searched for 'bmp2jpg' on Google and it came up with quite a few programs that convert BMPs to JPGs. The main one is a demo of a $99.00 program, but it looks as if it serves your exact purpose of a CGI program on Windows.

If you are using something like Linux, I haven't found anything yet, but you could probably script something like Gimp to convert a BMP to JPG by command line only, and then call that from a CGI program.

Anon

Good lord, man, you are a god.

Thanks for the help :-)

Jack Slocum wrote:

G'luck.

Jack

Anon

Chad

Look at Jack's post .. handy little utility there :-)

Thanks for the idea though .. I certainly hadn't thought of it, and I'll give it a shot.. Would you be able to change image size (X and Y) with Gimp? Not familiar with the program.

Thanks,

Tim

Anon

I saw Jack's right after I hit submit. His is definiatly the way to go.

Regarding the Gimp question, I did a cursory look at the manual to see that you can run it in non-interactive mode, but of what I've seen of Gimp, it has extensive scripting capability, so I'm sure it could change the size among other things. Again, not a definitive answer.