Re: [MacPerl] graphics

[Joel Rees <joel_rees@sannet.ne.jp>]

Photoshop 5 has something like macros, have you considered them? I know 
it's not as sexy as Perl, ...

Joel 

joel_rees@sannet.ne.jp

>At 9:01 PM -0800 1/22/00, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:
>>For a project I'm working on for my work I'm given a set of quite large
>>jpeg files. Each of which I have to resize and save versions of into a
>>smaller jpeg and tumbnail jpeg. These are then accessed by a series of
>>similar html pages, with captions and suchlike.
>
>[snip]
>
>>of automating that side of things. Being as there are currently over
>>100 images to go through this and 300 or so more comming in the recent
>>forseeable future; I really don't want to do it all manually, even if
>>I am being paid for the time :)
>
>I have a similar project to do soon, so I'm going to chime in and say I
>need some advice on this too. Here's my project: For the (psuedo-)
>Millennium, some folks here conceived of the Webwall, a place where people
>could submit quotations, pictures, or whole web pages, for automatic
>viewing together on New Years's Eve. It went great -- we had pithy
>quotations, love letters, pet pictures, surf pictures, heartfelt
>manifestos, a bi-coastal haiku poetry slam, even the obligatory rant that
>this wasn't really the millennium. (Check it out at
>http://webwall.sasquatch.com. Feel free to submit something to the new
>webwall.) We're going to continue it, with webwalls for things like
>holidays (Valentine's Day coming up), travel postcards, more poetry, public
>affairs debates, who knows what-all.
>
>I want to make the script handle the uploaded images better. I limited
>image size by checking for _file_ size as the image came in from the
>submitter's browser and rejecting images over 100K. But I didn't have time
>to go further and actualy manipulate images into a standard 'physical'
>size, which would have helped the onscreen presentation and eliminated the
>need to filter out large ones. So, now I'd like to process large images to
>a smaller size at the time of upload, or later, post-upload, but ideally
>without a human operator.
>
>I have some doubts about this from the standpoint of image quality, 'cause
>in my own image work I prefer to set size before converting to jpeg format.
>On the other hand, the quality criteria in this application aren't that
>stringent.
>
>Here's what I plan to investigate, hoping for some suggestions before I
>resume development next month:
>
>1. Use GD ??
>2. Use ImageMagick/PerlMagick ??
>  $image->Set(size=>[string]); #looks useful!
>(http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/www/perl.html)
>3. Find a scriptable image manipulation app, use Chris's Glue, and code a
>set of batch processing commands for doing the work on a Mac
>(GraphicConverter, Debabelizer, Photoshop -- anybody tried this??).
>4. As a fallback, write a script that will go through all the images, find
>the ones that are too large, and present each one to an operator with some
>controls for guiding its re-size.
>5. Other ideas?
>
>Love to see if anyone on the list has tried something like this, could show
>some examples w/ results, or could at least steer me (& Nick) the right
>direction...
>
>Thanks!
>
>P.S. The scripts that power the webwall are still rough, and I hope also to
>module-ize them soon, but if anyone sees an aspect of the webwall you'd
>like to know more about, I'm happy to share the code. All told it's several
>hundred lines, so I'm not going to post it to the list...
>
>- Bruce
>
>__Bruce_Van_Allen___bva@cruzio.com__Santa_Cruz_CA__
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