This is a very common situation: I want to publish some photos in the Internet, but I have to resize them. Of course, this is often done by the CMS or the blogging system. But on the other hand, some websites doesn’t offer such a possibilities. The best solution is to use some external aapplication, which performs the messive resizing of graphic files.

SIR - Simple Image Resizer seems to be reasonable answer. It can convert into and from the following formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, XPM, PGM, PBM, and PPM. C++/QT and QImage class are to convert the images. The application gives the possibility of resizing files, and rotating them.

SIR is also available as a service menu. This is a very useful solution for KDE users.

SIR is available as a source code package. To compile, use the following commands:

qmake sir.pro && make

To install the sir Service Menu copy sir.desktop to ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

SIR 1.2 needs Qt 4.x libraries. The others versions needs qt 3.x.

You will find more information at the project’s homepage.