I oscillate between Acorn and Pixelmator on the Mac – its great to have two competent alternatives to Photoshop. Pixelmator is my current fav on the iPad Pro (there’s nothing like using it’s object removal with the Apple Pencil). However, today Acorn has me on the Mac because it is scriptable. Whipped up this little script to generate images for Script Debugger 6 release notes:
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later use scripting additions on downsampleImage(theFile) local destFolderHFSPath tell application "Finder" set destFolderHFSPath to get folder "Web" of desktop as string end tell tell application "Acorn" tell (open theFile) local imageName, imageWidth, imageHeight set {imageName, imageHeight, imageWidth} to {name, height, width} trim -- Create 1x down sampled image web export width (imageWidth * 0.328) height (imageHeight * 0.328) as PNG in file (destFolderHFSPath & imageName & ".png") -- Create 2x down sampled image web export width (imageWidth * 0.65) height (imageHeight * 0.65) as PNG in file (destFolderHFSPath & imageName & "@2x.png") close saving no end tell end tell end downsampleImage on open theFiles repeat with aFile in theFiles downsampleImage(contents of aFile) end repeat end open
No fuss, it just worked.
When it comes to automating and batch processing of images, then GraphicConverter is my choice. Did you try this application?
Of course, there are many tools available to scale images. As good as GraphicConverter is, because I use it infrequently, I find it’s scripting interface a bit of a puzzle. I’m pointing out that Acorn scripting interface works, and was a pleasant surprise.
Hey Mark,
Cool. Thanks for the heads-up.
On first inspection Acorn’s AppleScript dictionary looks pretty functional. It’s nice to be able to script an app without having to fight it.
— Take Care, Chris