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                     Release 1.2.2, 13 May 2008
                  Vrai Stacey <vrai@acherondevelopment.com>
           http://acherondevelopment.com/project.php?name=birt



About
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BIRT, the Batch Image Resizing Thing, is a simple application that allows a
large number of images to be resized in one go. Obviously this is possible by
scripting ImageMagick but it's usually somewhat easier with a GUI. It was
created in order to learn how to develop using the Qt library, and to
facilitaty the maintenance of an online photo album where each hi-res photo
needs a low-res copy and a thumbnail. 


Usage
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BIRT is very simple to use: simply select the image files to be resized, enter
the new size, select the output directory and press "Go". A more detailed
instruction set, include explanations of the ratio options and output
suffix/prefix fields can be found in the "How To Use BIRT" section of the help. 
To access this online help simply start the application and click on the
"Help" button at the bottom of the BIRT window.


Building
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BIRT uses the qmake build tool that comes packaged with the Qt library. To
build BIRT follow the instructions below:

1. Ensure that a recent (2.95+) version of GCC is installed.

2. Ensure that the current version of Qt installed is at least version 3.2.0.
   BIRT may build with older versions but has not been tested.
   
3. Edit the 'birt.pro' project file and change the installation directory if
   required (it defaults to /usr/local/birt).

4. Run 'qmake' to generated the Makefile.

5. Run 'make' to build using the newly generated Makefile.

6. Run 'make install' to copy the BIRT files to the installation directory
   (see 3).

   
So to build and install BIRT in the default directory you'd run:

    qmake
    make
    make install


Additional Code
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Eric George             "Smart Ratio Match" functionality.        6 Sept 2005


Bugs
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Any bugs or unexpected behavoir should be reported to Vrai
<vrai@acherondevelopment.com>. If bugs aren't reported they can't be fixed!