Re: applescript and graphics programs
Re: applescript and graphics programs
- Subject: Re: applescript and graphics programs
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:48:41 EDT
Dear Erik,
Others have suggest iView MediaPro ($50-65/single user downloadable
version) and ImageMagick_AE. Note that mageMagick_AE does not list Quark
XPress as a supported format. If the script you are writing needs to run on a
lot of machines, the cost of licensing multiple seats for MediaPro may become
prohibitive.
Retrieving the sizes and format information for graphic files is fairly
straightforward (GraphicConverter, $35, or PhotoShop 7, $699), but retreiving
Quark XPress document sizes either requires Quark XPress to be available on
the machine doing the cataloging (running the script) or use of MediaPro.
If the company you are doing this for has already invested in the purchase
of Quark & Photoshop 7 (or Quark and GraphicConverter), it may be more
cost-effective to use those applications and use a nested decision statement
concerning file type/creator information to decide which app to call for
info, rather than purchasing another app.
Just some (hopefully helpful) thoughts...
Best Wishes,
Marc Glasgow
In a message dated 6/10/02 9:51:38 PM, Erik Price <email@hidden> writes:
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Here is the requirement:
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1. A folder containing graphics files such as JPEGs,
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Photoshop documents, Quark XPress documents, Illustrator
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files, TIFFs or PDFs will be assembled by the user.
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2. The user takes their folder and drags it over the
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droplet, which activates the AppleScript (that I need to
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write).
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3. The AppleScript searches through this folder and
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extracts the following information about each file:
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- width
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- height
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- resolution if applicable
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- file type (JPEG, TIFF, QXP, etc)
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- file size
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The dimensions preferrably in inches (but if it must be
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pixels then I can do the math to get the inches based on
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the resolution)
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4. The information is then written to a text file which
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is added to the folder.
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