Re: Scaling large images w/ Akua Sweets
Re: Scaling large images w/ Akua Sweets
- Subject: Re: Scaling large images w/ Akua Sweets
- From: Landis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:05:54 -0700
> From: Landis <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Scaling large images w/ Akua Sweets
> Thanks for the great and rapid responses. I appreciate the help.
I've gotten three replies so far, and have tried all three methods
without succes.
Here's a script I use all the time, employing Akua Sweets to reduce
images to a maximum dimension.
...
set theImage to scale image theImage to {0, 0, x, y}
store image theImage in ((destFldr as text) & fileName) [optn-L]
as "JPEG" with percent quality 75
apply catalog info {file creator:"GKON"} to alias ((destFldr as
text) & fileName)
set convCnt to convCnt + 1
end repeat
if convCnt > 1 then
set theText to (convCnt as text) & " images were converted"
else
set theText to "One image was converted"
end if
say "Conversion completed" using "Fred"
say theText using "Fred"
activate
display dialog theText buttons {"OK"} default button 1 [optn-L]
with icon note giving up after 15
end open
Watch out for line wraps. "[optn-L]" stands in for the continuation
character.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
Marc and fellow AppleScripters,
Thanks for the sample script, it worked perfectly and I really like
the speaking announcement of completion. Nice touch!
My problem is that I still can't get my script to work on really
large PICT files. I've found when dealing with 40MB images that the
only way to get the image to load is with the "with proxy return"
part. But then the storing or scaling part of the script doesn't
work. Am I using the proxy wrong? How does one use a proxy in this
way? My original script does work with JPEGs and PICTs of reasonable
sizes, it just gets weird when I add the large files to the mix and
try to use proxies. Any suggestions along this line?
One other thing: anyone out there know anything about Scripting
Apple's QTVR Authoring Studio? I'm trying to make a project manager
with stitchers in it and the dictionary is really close to no help
(neither is any knowledge of normal AppleScript I'm finding - really
strange AS implementation in a program from Apple no less).
Thanks for all the help everyone's rendered so far!
Landis