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Thats actually really useful, and quite simple in terms of what’s happening!

There is no sopurce code in archive :((

Just wanting to know how yoiu make this working

This is amazingly helpful. Is it possible to make one that resizes the image to a user-definable size? So you could then just drop a file, and make a compressed file at, say, 1000px on its longest side.

It would make saving for web much easier!

Hi Simon,
Great little app (in fact I like all the stuff on your site!)

Querstion: Is there any way of controlling the dpi resolution? I really need 72 dpi and your droplet appears only to spit out at 150.

Nice work!
Joe

Hi Simon,

I’ve tried this excellent application. It’s does what it’s supposed to. Except for two things.

1. The Finder preview/icon has a black background (minor problem, but made my heart jump)
2. It throws away the clipping path (this is a major problem, would it be possible to fix it?)

This would be a very useful application for us if it weren’t for those things.

Good work!
/rpo

Hi Simon, thanks for this great script. I generate a lot of screen shots for posting to the Coppermine Gallery Support Forum and this will really come in handy. As an added feature, do you think adding a copyright notice to the image is doable? Thanks again! Billy

Hi Simon, it seems to be a great job but it doesn’t work with my .eps files…maybe it’s me doing sthg wrong…help plz!!! Why don’t u put a pdf guide in the downloadable archive? Another thing: could u pls send me the same 72dpi version u already sent to Joe on October 6? Thx a lot! Max

Hi Simon,

A silly question. I am mac based and generally only have the option to save in jpeg or tiff format in photoshop. This plays havoc when I supply images to my web designers. Is there mac based software so I can save a psd or jpeg file as jpg and gif?

Kind Regards, Rod

This is ALMOST what I need!

But the droplet accepts all fileformats … EXCEPT jpg/jpeg.

If you could make these acceptable as well, then I can convert my hi-compressed jpg’s into any quality of compression.

Is this possible (in the near future)?

Thanks in advance,

Sanne, Netherlands

Excellent Post, thanx for sharing

How can I make my own Tag and make it a jpeg? Would like to post it on my Tagged.

Thanks

Hi Simon

Great script, and thanks for posting it. However I’m wondering if you can help… I too would like to be able to change the resolution of the output image. I managed to put the sips dpiHeight/Width command into the script, but this only seems to change the pixel aspect ratio, not the actual image resolution.

Any idea how I can get a 72dpi image out from this, or am I being stupid?

Many thanks indeed for any help.
Patrick

Aha – interesting. I think however, that would be slightly beyond my clumsy script-hacking abilities…
Thanks for letting me know.
P

sips throws away the clipping path, is it so?
Imagemagick does not.

excelent work :-)

ps
droplet working with folder contents/structures could be whery usefull

Nice script… any idea why it doesn’t work under Snow Leopard? I’ve been looking here, but I’m not much of an applescripter: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2009/Sep/msg00160.html

Hi Simon,
(and all,)

As a little feature of this FileMaker Pro app I wrote quite some time ago, I have basically an analogue script for resizing images while uploading them tot the database and a website.

But I am having trouble at displaying pictures at any other resolution than 72.0 dpi in FileMaker (they show up fine on the web) and it looks like it is resolution-related.
Your suggestion :

It is possible to change the script to support resampling. This would involve running an initial sips command to interrogate the image dpi, width and height and gathering the results into variables. You would then calculate the new width and height based on target dpi, then run the sips command to process the image.

looks quite interesting & promising, but I can’t “grep” it. Care to elaborate ?
I have the interrogation part covered, my problem is in the resampling (there’s no resampleResolution in man sips and setProperty dpiWidth/Height doesn’t seem to affect it)

I’d be really pleased for someone to have a go at this, it’s on my ‘todo’ list but quite far down…

I’d be quite happy to oblige…

Very useful!
Thanks Simon!

Thanks Simon,

great simple tool, just what I was looking for.

Hi Simon, I’ve ran into an interesting problem, and have not yet found a solution to it (not sure there is one!). When using the SIPS command, it crops the image. For example, I work at a law firm and am taking multi-page PDFs to single page TIFFs (or JPGs) and have been searching the web for several days looking for a decent solution when I found yours. I ran it, and it worked like a champ, but it also cropped portions of the page off, not just shrunk it.

Any thoughts as to why SIPS would do that?

Thanks,

K

Hey Simon– I have solved the challenge. If there is no background (as shown under Preview/Show Background), then it will cut those areas. My PDFs had that issue where there was a border with no background and so SIPS cut it off. It’s something built into SIPS and what SIPS does. The droplet works wonderful! Thanks much!

K

This droplet is unbelievably useful, and just plain awesome. Thank you for unleashing it on the world.

Excellent program. Do you plan to make this app Universal or Intel based before Lion arrives?

Thanks!

Dude you just save me hours of work!

Not working on Lion anymore… is it possible to create a compatible version? I always loved these droplets – saved me hours and hours …

Very interesting. Thank you for this work.

“You can force the output dpi by editing the source code.”

Here’s an uneducated fellow’s guess: this seems to only change the relevant JFIF field — amongst others, the Photoshop [Image:Image Size] dialog box [Resolution] uses the EXIF property, which remains unaltered. In the case of existing JPEG files, when using SIPS from the Terminal command line, the file is rewritten (recompressed) unlike some “lossless rotation” routines, with additional unwanted side effects in my case.

The search continues for a way to change the resolution (pixel density for printing or DPI) without otherwise changing the file. All this because TextEdit v.1.6 renders image files dependent upon their EXIF DPI and there seems no other way to change the image size in a TextEdit document without radical destructive editing to the original image file. Even manually editing the Rich Text code (sizes in twips, naturally) seems to have no effect.

My brain is starting to hurt.

Thanks so much for this Saved me some time in having to create it myself. Good work – exactly what I was looking for.

OMG you just saved my life with the make jpeg droplet.
Do you know HOW MUCH TIME i lose converting png to jpg? This is a godsend!!

Great! Thanks!

Simon, this saves me time on a daily basis.

I would kiss you on the mouth if I were able.

Thank you Simon, thank God!

Amazing work. Thank you for this!