• TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    ImageMagick is shit

    I love ImageMagick despite its quirks; but then again I do not use it for professional use (well I do as a dev but I’m not a photograph or anything). What does XNViewMP does that ImageMagick doesn’t ?

    Because at first glance it seems much worse - it has a graphical UI for one thing which seems inappropriate for the usecases I see ImageMagick being used for.

    Also that Filelist Creator thing has existed on unix since the 70s; it’s called “find”, “ls”, and “awk”.

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      1 year ago

      Try XNViewMP for yourself. You will know quickly about its feature set. Read their website and documentation. ImageMagick is pretty meh in comparison. I once tried converting WebP images with trying to preserve metadata, but could not.

      Also try Filelist Creator, the ease of use with GUI is incredibly painless, and it allows a lot of options and export file formats.

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        1 year ago

        For the Filelist thing I prefer CLI tools generally (and all the export formats I’ve seen in the features seem perfectly doable through them); but your answer about XNViewMP definitely has merits, thanks ! I’ll take a look at it