Something to disply jpeg files

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Assasin-uk

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I need to disply jpeg files around a building, as it stands we used to use large photo frames and this worked great. However the thing is now is that all the suppliers frames only open .jpg files and not jpeg - also the machine that is exporting these images cannot change its export type.

As there is going to be lots of jpeg files changing all the time on the frames changing the file extention is impractical..

A cheap solution at a min of 10" picture size for jpeg's without buying pcs?..

not an easy one as these frames were only £150 each..

thoughts...
 
could this be done automaticaly though, our software exports from its GUI and we have no control over it, we just select a file, it converts it to jpeg and asks us where to send it, normaly a usb stick..
 
You'd need to manually run the batch script on the directory you've just put the .jpegs into. Not hard to do, and if it saves you throwing away a bunch of £150 frames, then where's the hardship?
 
After you have exported I to the USB stick run the script to change the file extensions from there?

rename *.jpeg *.jpg

Have that in a .bat file on the USB stick and run it after the export.
 
Batch script. Not sure how you'd do it in Windows, but I could write a bash script for a Unix system to do that easily.

The problem is trivial, to be honest.
 
might be a plan to do this, i have no idea on how to creat the batch file though.

an like you say if it saves me throwing away a ton of frames...
 
off to test, thanks very much.

This might sound trivial but its realy not. Doing things like this saves a HUGE amount of money not for me or my company but a well known dog charity... :)
 
Assasin-uk said:
off to test, thanks very much.

This might sound trivial but its realy not. Doing things like this saves a HUGE amount of money not for me or my company but a well known dog charity... :)
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It is trivial once you understand that there is virtually nothing that a computer can't do with a given set of data, and that computers are excellent at doing lots of simple tasks quickly.

You know how to rename a file, yes? You know how to change the extension manually. I would hope that it is obvious that if you can do it with a computer, then you can make the computer do it as well.

From there, it's just a few steps to automating the whole thing.

I'm not saying everyone should be able to write the code to do these sorts of things, but we'd be better off if people understood better what computers can and can't do.

Not trying to be an arse here, just saying that this is not a remotely complicated problem.
 
RDM potentially just saved the lives of countless numbers of dogs in one line of text in a bat file!

Good job, yo.
 
either way it worked, it just had to be automated and usable to a huge bunch of people who dont have the time to mess and frankly are just about used to using a mouse..

Thanks again, as usual great advice from ocuk usuers, if not sometimes looked into a little to deeply ;)
 
Sundance said:
RDM potentially just saved the lives of countless numbers of dogs in one line of text in a bat file!

Good job, yo.
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