Creating Thumbnails: dcraw and ImageMagick in a Batch File (1)
Usage for RAW files.
- If not installed, download and install dcraw and ImageMagick
- Create a batch file as listed below
- Open: Edit > Settings > Thumbnails
- Check Create thumbnails with own external program
- Write into the text field under External image creation application:
"Path_to_Batch_file" "%s" %i
where"Path_to_Batch_file"is something like"C:\Batch\dcraw.bat"(the folder path where the batch file is stored included the batch file name)
Batch File
Written by Matthias Vonken. You have to fit the paths to dcraw.exe and
convert.exe.
@echo off set IMAGE_FILE=%1 set MAX_LENGTH=%2 rem Creating thumbnail "C:\dcraw\dcraw.exe" -e -c %IMAGE_FILE% | "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.6.9-Q16\convert.exe" - -thumbnail %MAX_LENGTH%x%MAX_LENGTH% -auto-orient jpg:-
Author: Elmar Baumann
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Status of this document: 2011-04-27