Re: Image thumbnails question
Re: Image thumbnails question
- Subject: Re: Image thumbnails question
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:38:34 -0500
On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 10:26 US/Central, Bill Planey wrote:
I will use AS to facilitate this automatically... Does anyone have any
recommendations for what program I should use for the thumbnails?
iPhoto?
InDesign? FileMaker Pro? ...or can Photoshop handle this?
I use MultiAd Creator for things like that. It's incredibly scriptable
and powerful. But I'm the engineer who writes all the AppleScript code
for Creator, so I'm biased. :) One of my scripts builds a photo album
web page, complete with thumbnails. The script instructs Creator to
export a low-quality jpg thumbnail and a high-quality image constrained
to the selected dimensions. In fact, I've been using Creator for
non-graphic-related scripts lately because of its ability to create
custom dialogs and palettes from a script.
I haven't done much monkeying around with scripting Photoshop in the
past few years. The last time I tried (a long time ago), it was barely
scriptable and I had to have the scripts tell QuicKeys to run the UI.
Unless I'm missing something, 7.x still has no scriptable interface,
except for "open" and "do script", so it looks like you'd have to
create actions to do the actual work, then the script would simply run
those. Gross.
InDesign appears to be much more scriptable than Photoshop. But you
still have to deal with their very strange and goofy picture box
paradigm.
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
http://sjmills5.home.mchsi.com/
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