Today, I needed to fill a memory card with thousands of tiny images of Digi & Kalila to go into a digital picture frame (for my father in law's birthday). I decided to the pictures we've picked out over the last few years and placed on the web. The trouble was, each of these pictures needed to be resized, and padded where appropriate, to fit the frame. And there were around 2000 of these things, all sitting around in nested folders along with various html pages etc.
I started to think about writing a script to do this. But then, “hmm”, thinks I, “I've not used the Automator application before - let's give that a spin”.
And a few pain-free minutes later, I was copying 2000 renamed, resized, padded images onto the memory card, and writing about it on my blog, feeling rather smug indeed.
So, stick that up your Windows Monad Powershell…
we've had that function since the days of '98… you mac users are sooooo….yawn
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ps still listening to 777 with frightening frequency. possibly my 'most listened to' piece this year.
Nah, you had batch files and Paint (which could only work with BMPs, and wasn't scriptable).
Posted by: Nik Newark at July 25, 2007 08:21 AMwe had a program called Photo(something or other - it was a long time ago) that automatically resized (cropped or expanded) a folder of photos to a given size and saved in a new folder… is this the same thing you are doing?
for a more contemporary look and feel, check out Bridge in CS3. It has a similar management utility
Ah, that's a piece of third party add-on software. I'm using the OS itself to do all sorts of exciting things, which means I haven't needed to go scouring through shareware. Quite elegant (and would appeal to non-programmers too).
Posted by: Nik at July 26, 2007 09:17 AMof course, sorry, i am with you now.
so 7+ years later you are now doing things that i have been taking for granted?
still listening to 777 - wonderful stuff
Posted by: rohan at July 26, 2007 02:30 PM