ANNOUNCE: Image Info 1.0 [longish]
ANNOUNCE: Image Info 1.0 [longish]
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: Image Info 1.0 [longish]
- From: David Lloyd <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:39:57 +1100
Hello all...
After much testing and tweaking, I've released Image Info 1.0, my
AppleScript solution for retrieving information about images.
Blurb...
Image Info is targeted at both scripters and non-scripters who wish to
retrieve information about images without opening the whole image into
memory. Because it does not need to open entire images, it returns the info
very quickly.
More than a dozen common image formats are supported including TIFF, JPEG,
EPS, PICT and GIF, and a variety of information can be retrieved about each,
including resolution, width, height and color mode.
Image Info has been tested in real life production houses to sort through
hundreds of images, parsing unwanted RGB images from CMYK, or low resolution
images from high resolution ones. An included script scans a QuarkXPress
file for RGB images and converts them to CMYK using Photoshop. Other
solutions enable automatic sorting of image files when dropped onto a folder
or creating a text log containing info about all images contained on a CD.
Image Info offers flexibility, the limit to it's use rest only with the
imagination of the user.
More than 20 editable AppleScripts are included ready-to-go for use with
Image Info, with many examples of folder actions, droplets which can sort
images according to their mode or orientation, applets to find out the names
of colors or fonts in EPS files, and several scripts for QuarkXPress and
Photoshop users.
Image Info runs on all Macintosh systems from 7.5 up to OS X 10.1, and does
not require any other software or application outside of the MacOS to run.
Image Info costs $35.00 and a demo can be downloaded from:
http://www.kanzu.com.
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The full spec....
Image Info retrieves information from the following image formats:
7 TIFF (Mac & IBM formats)
7 JPEG
7 PICT
7 BMP (Windows bitmap)
7 8BPS (Photoshop versions 2.5 and above)
7 PNG
7 PNTG (Macpaint)
7 PCX (PC PaintBrush)
7 GIFf (Compuserve gif)
7 ..CT (Scitex CT)
7 Raster EPS (Photoshop)
7 DCS EPS (Photoshop DCS 1.0 and DCS 2.0)
7 Vector EPS
For each type, Image Info returns the following information:
7 Image Type - the file type of image (e.g."JPEG")
7 Image Description - extra info about the image, if available
(e.g."GIF89a".)
7 Height - as pixels (except vector EPS's, which return as points)
7 Width - as pixels (except vector EPS's, which return as points)
7 Resolution - as dots per inch (except vector EPS's, which return "N/A")
7 Image mode - either Bitmap, Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Indexed,
(+ YCbCr for TIFF, Multichannel or Lab for Photoshop, or 4 bit for BMP)
7 (except vector EPS's, which return "N/A")
Some image types return extra information:
7 TIFF - Compression (CCITT, LZW and Packbits),
7 BMP - Compression (RLE4, RLE8 and Bitfields)
7 Photoshop - Channels (Number of channels)
7 JPEG - Encoding (Baseline, Progressive)
7 PNG - Encoding (Interlaced)
7 Raster EPS - Encoding (Binary, Ascii, JPEG), Compression (JPEG)
7 Vector EPS - Document fonts, Document spot colors.
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(I'm very much thankful to Bill Sharkey for his invaluable help in testing
Image Info thru many hundreds of images.)
I hope that all you image scripters enjoy using Image Info.
Best regards,
David Lloyd
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email: email@hidden
web:
http://www.kanzu.com
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