[Gimp-developer] thumbnail generation for nautilus via gimp

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 07:55 +0100, gg at catking.net wrote:

> As Liam suggested ImageMagick is a command line tool intended for  
> precisely the sort of processing you are trying to do and will certainly  
> be much lighter and faster than a full GUI image processing program like  
> gimp.

In fact it turns out that ImageMagick is very often slower and needs
more memory than GIMP. If you use 'gimp -i' then the UI is not loaded
and the gimp-console binary doesn't even have the UI linked in.


Sven