Ubuntu Linux is in need of a GTK/QT GUI for image conversions.
Imagemagick is a phenomenal CLI program for converting images into different formats, resizing, watermarks, etc.
For instance, a CLI command to convert PDF files into JPG, renaming the file from 'example.pdf' to 'example.jpg' is this easy:
for file in `ls *.pdf`; do convert $file 800x800 `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'`; done
Unfortunately, this is not suffice for computer users such as my family members. My mother, who is on dial-up and uses Windows XP has a nifty function to resize images via Outlook Express so that a 1MB photo is now only 100kB. It saves her lots of time and agony.
For work, my boss purchased some sort of Windows program for batch conversion. Needless to say he wasn't too happy when I came along and showed him Imagemagick.
I think a front-end, possibly in PyGTK would be wildly successful as a default-installed program.
The program would allow the selection of multiple images and image types to be converted into JPG, PDF, PNG, etc., with the ability to resize to a certain width or height, addition of a watermark in the corner of the photo, etc.
If this is not a possibility in the near future, as a first year Computer Science major, I would like to work on this if Ubuntu ever joins Google Summer of Code 2009.
