.... We're a signed
applet so installing ImageMagick wouldn't be good but if there was
something
available as part of OS X I could certainly run it. Do you happen
to know if
there's something like that as part of the standard install?
I don't believe it is, though you could make Preview.app do it
using applescript.
There is a tool in the standard OS install: it's called /usr/bin/sips.
The name stands for Scriptable Image Processing System. It can do
many kinds of conversion, resizing, cropping, metadata, and other
operations. Basically, it's the innards of Automator.app's image-
processing features and the Image Events scripting suite.
Read 'man sips' for details on what it can do, or type 'sips -h' for
a summary.
Someone already posted an example of converting an image file from
PICT to PNG, but it has enough other features that sips is worth
considering in a wider range of image-processing tasks. It exists on
10.5 and 10.4 for sure, and maybe even 10.3 IIRC.
However, if you can find a viable ImageIO plugin I'd use that
before going the exec() route.
It depends. If the file-format conversion is a fundamental feature
of the overall task, then exec()'ing the sips command is not that
different from schlepping the file in through one ImageIO converter
and out through another. Also, for an applet, the total code size
might be important, and exec()'ing sips could be smaller than sending
ImageIO conversion classes in the applet's jar.
-- GG
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