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5 <title>ImagePrep Read Me</title>
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13 <h1>ImagePrep Read Me</h1>
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14 <p>This is a simple program mainly created for my own benefit.</p>
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15 <p>Because it is primarily for my own benefit, it does not build to a
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16 “clickable†app. That is too much of a pain to implement.</p>
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17 <p>Because I have code to crib, it does contain a help file. It’s pretty
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18 rudimentary, however.</p>
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19 <p>Because I have code to crib, it does run on a <code>.properties</code>
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20 file, but because coding preferences dialogs is something of a pain, it
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21 does not contain a preferences or settings dialog, even though there is
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22 some code to crib for both. The <code>.</code><code>properties</code>
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23 file must be edited by hand* (it will live in the normal place for such
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24 files on the system being run under). If no such file exists, a default
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25 one will be created. The only things in it will be the maximum dimension
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26 to clamp to, where the output file goes by default, and maybe what the
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27 output file’s name is by default (i.e. a name suffix).</p>
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28 <p>* This program is <em>for my own benefit</em>, and <em>I</em> have no
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29 problem editing text files, therefore this is reasonable.</p>
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30 <p>Contrary to JpegWasher, which is designed for batch processing, this will
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31 have more of a “document editor†style of design. Meaning, you open a
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32 file, you edit it, you save it, you close it.</p>
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33 <p>Upon opening a file, it will be auto-scaled to the specified maximum
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34 dimension. This will default to the value in the preferences file, but the
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35 user will be able to override it with a command-line argument.</p>
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36 <p>Ah, the command-line. Because it’s not a full “clickable†app, it is
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37 launched from the command line, and accepts arguments, much like the old
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38 days of using X Windows. This is actually <em>more</em> user-friendly for
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39 my purposes, because it ends up honoring the concept of the current
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40 working directory. (Directory management is one area where GUI programs
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41 fall short.)</p>
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42 <p>The current working directory is the input files directory. Depending on
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43 how the properties are configured, the output directory is either the
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44 current working directory, or a specified output file directory. Both
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45 directories act like a current working directory; the next time an input
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46 or output dialog is brought up in a given session, it will be in the same
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47 spot the previous dialog was when it was closed. All this makes it easy to
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48 rapidly edit files in a directory of images downloaded from a camera,
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49 without polluting that directory with the edited files.</p>
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50 <p>At that point, the editing step begins. It is extremely simple and is
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51 limited to rotation. Three types of rotation will be offered, 90°
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52 clockwise, 180°, and 90° counterclockwise.</p>
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53 <p>The user can rotate the file as many times as s/he wants. Sort of silly,
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54 but sometimes people are tired and get clockwise and counterclockwise
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55 confused, so might as well give ’em a chance to fix their mistakes. Plus,
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56 it would take special effort <em>not</em> to allow this.</p>
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57 <p>Then comes the closing and saving. They are one operation, because that
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58 makes the program easier <em>for me</em> to use.</p>
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59 <p>Ideally, I wouldn’t even puts around with making this a GUI app in the
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60 first place. It’s for my own use, so the command line would be good
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61 enough. The problem is rotation: it’s a hot mess. There’s really no way to
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62 do it right save to show the image to a human and let him (me) decide
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63 which way is up.</p>
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