Re[2]: stretching wallpaper
theruck (theruck@vault-tec.sk)
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:12:56 +0200
((o: yes i am skilled with gimp and photoshop and others like this but
i thought there is a selector if the wallpaper is tiled or stretched
or what... in some configuration file of aterstep i am not going to
resize the 100 wallpapers in gimp...
Bob,
Monday, August 5, 2002, 2:57:54 PM, you wrote:
BMJ> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:46:52PM +0200, theruck wrote:
>> Hello as-users,
>>
>> how can i stretch a wallpaper if it is 1024x768 and my desktop is
>> 1280x1024?
BMJ> Have a look at pnmscale. First you will need to use one of the pnm
BMJ> utilities (e.g. giftopnm or jpegtopnm) to convert it to PNM (portable
BMJ> anymap) format, then scale it up with pnmscale, and convert it back to
BMJ> the previous format.
BMJ> You will need different scale factors for x and y, so, assuming you
BMJ> are converting jpeg wallpaper, you could string everything together:
BMJ> jpegtopnm wallpaper.jpg | pnmscale -xscale=1.25 -yscale=1.33333 \
BMJ> | ppmtojpeg > newwallpaper.jpg
BMJ> "man jpegtopnm" and "man pnmscale" for a whole lot more information.
BMJ> I'm not that familiar with gimp, but you may be able to use it,
BMJ> instead.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> theruck mailto:theruck@vault-tec.sk
BMJ> Cheers,
--
Best regards,
theruck mailto:theruck@pig.sk
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