RE: Printing several files to one new doc
RE: Printing several files to one new doc
- Subject: RE: Printing several files to one new doc
- From: Hellum Timothy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:51:20 -0400
This is a good idea David. Thanks. But using Contact Sheet will likely not
allow me to read the rastered type. However, I will look up Eric Lam (the
name is familiar) and see what he suggests.
I suspect that Quark would be a good bet too (or InDesign - we have both),
but while I know these apps quite well for usage, I know little about
scripting them. Any help there would be terrific, thanks.
Kind regards,
Timothy
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From: Wadson, David
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Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:37 PM
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To: 'Hellum Timothy'
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Subject: RE: Printing several files to one new doc
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Would Photoshop's Contact Sheet function do what you need? It could
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eliminate any scripting and make the job easier. Otherwise, Quark could be
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scripted to assemble a document on whatever size paper you need. I can
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help
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you out with that if you'd like.
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It would be really sweet of you could script an OCR program to convert the
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rastered type into text instead of having to hand-bomb the data into the
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IPTC fields. That's going to be a really time-consuming and mind-numbing
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task for someone.
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Do you know Eric Lam? I'm pretty sure he's still in the Globe's graphic's
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department unless they've shuffled him around in the mergers with Bell.
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David Wadson
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Coordinator of Graphic Services
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The Chronicle-Journal
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Thunder Bay, Ontario
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> From: Hellum Timothy
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> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:51 AM
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> To: 'email@hidden'
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> Subject: Printing several files to one new doc
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> Hello all,
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> I have a quandary which I suspect is tailor-made for Applescript.
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> I have a folder of 1700 images that are each identically-sized. The
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> difference file-to-file is the rastered type in each (each image is 10.5
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> inches by .685 inches). printing these images in Landscape would allow
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> for
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> perhaps four or five documents per 8.5x11 sheet of paper. The rastered
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> type
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> is IPTC Captioning info.
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> What I would like to do is run a script that collects these files (all
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> resident in one folder at the moment) and places four (or five, space
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> permitting) in a new document (with saving: JPEG) *and* places each
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files'
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> filename above it in the new document.
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> This will present me with a document in Landscape that has four sets
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of
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> "textual" data with the original filename above each set of "textual"
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> data.
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> I can then match the "textual" data by filename after the fact to the
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> photo
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> they originally came from (that have no IPTC, just the rastered type
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I've
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> mentioned).
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> BACKGROUND:
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> Some poor person here will then have to "hand bomb" the rastered type
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> back
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> into the photos' IPTC fields. These images come from a circa 1992 4D
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> image
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> database where the IPTC record was stored separately and was
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subsequently
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> corrupted for these 1700 files. I have only the rastered caption in a
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> attached area to the actual image now. I ran a script that cut out and
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> resaved just the rastered type with the same filename, so I have those
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> now.
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> Any ideas/help will be most welcome.
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> Thank you.
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> Timothy
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