convert landscape and portrait files

[blau]

I have some dozen jpg files together, some landscape oriented, some
portrait.
How do I convert the jpgs, so that the width only is always (eg) 500 px ?

When I convert it as below, the longest between width/height gets
resized to 500 px.

blau:~$ for i in *.jpg; do convert "$i" -resize 500 \
"${i//.jpg}"-500.jpg; done

Blau

[Fred Weinhaus]

see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php#geometry


width
Width given, height automagically selected to preserve aspect ratio.

convert image -resize WIDTH result

seems to work for me. (Also WIDTHx)

IM 6.6.4.7 Q16 Mac OSX Tiger.

Are you on an old release of IM? Perhaps you need to upgrade.

Post by blau
I have some dozen jpg files together, some landscape oriented, some
portrait.
How do I convert the jpgs, so that the width only is always (eg) 500 px ?
When I convert it as below, the longest between width/height gets
resized to 500 px.
blau:~$ for i in *.jpg; do convert "$i" -resize 500 \
"${i//.jpg}"-500.jpg; done

[blau]

Post by Fred Weinhaus
Are you on an old release of IM? Perhaps you need to upgrade.

Thank you. It is probably an old version issue, testing on a different
machine now works as intended.

Blau

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Post by blau
I have some dozen jpg files together, some landscape oriented, some
portrait.
How do I convert the jpgs, so that the width only is always (eg) 500 px ?
When I convert it as below, the longest between width/height gets
resized to 500 px.
blau:~$ for i in *.jpg; do convert "$i" -resize 500 \
"${i//.jpg}"-500.jpg; done

Try -resize "500x" <- you have to tell IM which (width/height) is important

m.