GIMP can not do it

[Da Rock]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:27 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Da Rock <rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au> wrote:
> [...]
> >  Also, unless I'm mistaken Gimp uses imagemagick to perform some tasks.
> >  That may be a possibility for your needs in batch processing.
> 
> I don't think that is true - I'm pretty sure GIMP performs most tasks
> internally or through plug-ins.
> 
> GIMP can be used for batch processing as described here:
> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/
> 
> ImageMagick is a separate command-line image processing tool and also
> very useful in batch processing.  There are tons of howtos out there
> on using ImageMagick.  Once I even printed out the output of 'man
> convert'.  Be sure you have plenty of toner/paper before you try that
> though :)
> 
> Chris


Well there you go - you learn something new everyday. :)

I thought I noticed that imagemagick was installed as a dependency with
gimp so that led me to that conclusion.