Converting tiff images to bmp on AIX

[usedup]

Does anyone know of a good utility to convert tiff imanges to bmp?? I have about 10,000 images that have to be converted and workstation utilities take too much time.
Please let me know as soon as possible.

Thanks

 

[Yegolev]

i know a great prog that can do batch conversion of picture types, but it is for Windows. maybe you can ftp them out, convert, then back in.

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[jwtesch]

You can convert with 'xv' if you have the tiff libraries. Both can be downloaded form the Linux Toolls for AIX at

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html

Also there used to be a program called magic that would do things like this. You might try tgif from

http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/categories/graphics.html

I haven't used any of these for a while, but they are worth looking at.

 

[usige]

If you follow jwtesch's second link and grab ImageMagick it will do what you want. One of the command line utils is called

mogrify

. To use it you'd do something like:

mogrify -format bmp *.tiff

 

[usedup]

Thanks folks, all of these are helpful.
However, we've tried XV and ImageMagik and they don't seem to like our AIX box. It appears that we are missing a compiler.
We're trying something called EasyCopy which has a conversion feature that might be worth it. Also, on the Windows side we're trying ReaConverter Pro which seems to do the trick and then some. Very fast, too.

Now if I only had a way to create the metrics I need on the AIX box....
I'll keep everyone posted.