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| author | David Barts <n5jrn@me.com> |
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| date | Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:58:45 -0800 |
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| 13 <h1>ImagePrep Read Me</h1> | 13 <h1>ImagePrep Read Me</h1> |
| 14 <p>This is a simple program mainly created for my own benefit.</p> | 14 <p>This is a simple program for preparing digital images to be shared on the |
| 15 <p>Because it is primarily for my own benefit, it does not build to a | 15 Internet.</p> |
| 16 “clickable” app. That is too much of a pain to implement.</p> | 16 <p>More information is available <a href="https://notyouraveragetechie.com/ImagePrep.html">here</a>.</p> |
| 17 <p>Because I have code to crib, it does contain a help file. It’s pretty | |
| 18 rudimentary, however.</p> | |
| 19 <p>Because I have code to crib, it does run on a <code>.properties</code> | |
| 20 file, but because coding preferences dialogs is something of a pain, it | |
| 21 does not contain a preferences or settings dialog, even though there is | |
| 22 some code to crib for both. The <code>.</code><code>properties</code> | |
| 23 file must be edited by hand* (it will live in the normal place for such | |
| 24 files on the system being run under). If no such file exists, a default | |
| 25 one will be created. The only things in it will be the maximum dimension | |
| 26 to clamp to, where the output file goes by default, and maybe what the | |
| 27 output file’s name is by default (i.e. a name suffix).</p> | |
| 28 <p>* This program is <em>for my own benefit</em>, and <em>I</em> have no | |
| 29 problem editing text files, therefore this is reasonable.</p> | |
| 30 <p>Contrary to JpegWasher, which is designed for batch processing, this will | |
| 31 have more of a “document editor” style of design. Meaning, you open a | |
| 32 file, you edit it, you save it, you close it.</p> | |
| 33 <p>Upon opening a file, it will be auto-scaled to the specified maximum | |
| 34 dimension. This will default to the value in the preferences file, but the | |
| 35 user will be able to override it with a command-line argument.</p> | |
| 36 <p>Ah, the command-line. Because it’s not a full “clickable” app, it is | |
| 37 launched from the command line, and accepts arguments, much like the old | |
| 38 days of using X Windows. This is actually <em>more</em> user-friendly for | |
| 39 my purposes, because it ends up honoring the concept of the current | |
| 40 working directory. (Directory management is one area where GUI programs | |
| 41 fall short.)</p> | |
| 42 <p>The current working directory is the input files directory. Depending on | |
| 43 how the properties are configured, the output directory is either the | |
| 44 current working directory, or a specified output file directory. Both | |
| 45 directories act like a current working directory; the next time an input | |
| 46 or output dialog is brought up in a given session, it will be in the same | |
| 47 spot the previous dialog was when it was closed. All this makes it easy to | |
| 48 rapidly edit files in a directory of images downloaded from a camera, | |
| 49 without polluting that directory with the edited files.</p> | |
| 50 <p>At that point, the editing step begins. It is extremely simple and is | |
| 51 limited to rotation. Three types of rotation will be offered, 90° | |
| 52 clockwise, 180°, and 90° counterclockwise.</p> | |
| 53 <p>The user can rotate the file as many times as s/he wants. Sort of silly, | |
| 54 but sometimes people are tired and get clockwise and counterclockwise | |
| 55 confused, so might as well give ’em a chance to fix their mistakes. Plus, | |
| 56 it would take special effort <em>not</em> to allow this.</p> | |
| 57 <p>Then comes the closing and saving. They are one operation, because that | |
| 58 makes the program easier <em>for me</em> to use.</p> | |
| 59 <p>Ideally, I wouldn’t even puts around with making this a GUI app in the | |
| 60 first place. It’s for my own use, so the command line would be good | |
| 61 enough. The problem is rotation: it’s a hot mess. There’s really no way to | |
| 62 do it right save to show the image to a human and let him (me) decide | |
| 63 which way is up.</p> | |
| 64 </body> | 17 </body> |
| 65 </html> | 18 </html> |