How to rename a long list of photo filenames?

[Alan Dayley]

Deepak Saxena said:
>> - -resize 320x240 ---> landscape 320x240, portrait 180x240
>> - -resize 240x320 ---> landscape 240x180, portrait 320x240

Correction to my above last results:
-resize 240x320 ---> landscape 240x180, portrait 240x320

>>
>> So, either the resize has to be done before the rotation or the script
>> needs to be smart enough to detect the portrait rotated images and
>> change the resize option.  That makes the script more complex.
>
> Odd. I've been using a similar script to resize photos for sometime
> and not run into this issue (and i take lots of photos on both
> orientations).
>
> Version?
>
> [692]omelas(~)> convert -version
> Version: ImageMagick 6.2.3 08/08/05 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ImageMagick Studio LLC

[alandd at dumbledore Test]$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.2.2 05/26/05 Q16
file:/usr/share/ImageMagick-6.2.2/doc/index.html
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ImageMagick Studio LLC

(I love FreeNX!)

Did you do a similar test?  What script do you actually use?  Maybe it is
smart enough to adjust the -resize parameters.

Alan