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Hi Bonzo and fmw42 - thanks for your time

Bonzo: I tried the code - The only response I got was '%%f was unexpected at this time."

fmw42: The version I am using is 6.6.7 Q16, which is the latest version (if I understand it right)

Bonzo will have to help further as I know little about windows and IM under windows and windows bat file programming. I use Mac OSX with unix bash shell programming. Sorry.

fmw42 wrote:Bonzo will have to help further as I know little about windows and IM under windows and windows bat file programming. I use Max OSX with unix bash shell programming. Sorry.

Thanks anyway fmw42

AH ha I had that error when I was not thinking - you pasted the convert comand into the command prompt box.

You need to save my code example as a bat file somewhere; I put it in the my user folder Anthony.

The images were in a folder called crop_test on my desktop and so the comand to run that is:
C:\Users\Anthony\crop.bat C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test

First part is the path to the batch script: C:\Users\Anthony\crop.bat
The second is the path to the folder with the images to process: C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test
The third is the path to save the images to: C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test

Do not forget to cd\ back to the c prompt in the comand window before running the command.

For testing I just created a tempory folder and copied a couple of photos into it and saved the cropped images back to the same folder.

Bonzo wrote:AH ha I had that error when I was not thinking - you pasted the convert comand into the command prompt box.

You need to save my code example as a bat file somewhere; I put it in the my user folder Anthony.

The images were in a folder called crop_test on my desktop and so the comand to run that is:
C:\Users\Anthony\crop.bat C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test

First part is the path to the batch script: C:\Users\Anthony\crop.bat
The second is the path to the folder with the images to process: C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test
The third is the path to save the images to: C:\Users\Anthony\Desktop\crop_test

Do not forget to cd\ back to the c prompt in the comand window before running the command.

For testing I just created a tempory folder and copied a couple of photos into it and saved the cropped images back to the same folder.

Thanks Bonzo!!!

Did you ever get it working? I have been working in DOS batch for a bit, the FOR command is quite particular in its processing particularly with environment variables %1, %2 in a batch file. Give a response back, and I will be checking.
FYI, I tried your command, and you don't seem to need the %d on the output file name. IM CONVERT adds the number automatically.

Thanks for the info about the filename and %d

The double-quotes in the output are good, and I would suggest putting the input directory (%1) in quotes also.

for %%f in ("%1\*.png") do ( convert "%%f" -crop 128x128 +repage "%2\%%~nf.png" )
[quotes added to input-control][removed '_%%d' as it is not needed]

With this you should be able to have any input directory or output directory, spaces or not.

You would use the "mogrify" command instead. That would keep the file name exactly the same:
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html

OldBoy wrote:Well, it looks like it isn't a quad cut that I need, just equally sized divisions.

for equal sized divisions try the newer
Cropping into roughly Equally Sized Divisions
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop_equal

Specifically -crop 2x2@

If the image is an odd size, it will make the left/top images one pixel larger. It only ever generates a 1 pixel size for any number divisions.