Looking for two advanced batch scripts (version X2 and up)

[bdfoto]

I've been looking through the forum and can't find any answer to these two problems.

As a professional photographer shooting as many as 1000 images in a session it would be VERY useful to have have two batch scripts in my system. I have tried to work out how to do them myself but to no avail. My technical knowledge of pspscript writing just does not extend to this level.

For those of you familiar with the software BetterJPG you will know that it is possible, without loss of JPG quality, to:

- Select a huge batch of images, (including multiple directories), and rotate only those images that are not the right way up to the orientation flag whilst leaving those already the right way up alone;
- Resize / resample a huge batch of images, (including multiple directories), swapping width and height to match orientation, using a pre-run dialogue box to select:
- - - pixels or percent;
- - - max width;
- - - max height;
- - - lock aspect radio button;
- - - swap width and height to match orientation radio button;
- - - do not enlarge radio button;
- - - OK or Cancel buttons.

These are functions Paint Shop Pro doesn't do, and up until now I have used BetterJPG just for these two.

The problem is that Windows 8 and BetterJPG don't get on that well.

Seriously I am prepared to pay someone to write these two scripts for me as they would be invaluable.

Any offers - please ... I mean a really huge PLEASE.

Barney

[Radim]

I have some experiences with scripting when work with 100's and 1000's of images in PSP. And it is not good idea at all. It silently skip errors. You have manualy check all output files.

For processing you need I recomend look on another tools and try:

- http://www.faststone.org/index.htm
- http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/downl ... er/imbatch ...author is really open, and gladly implements some good new ideas
- http://www.irfanview.com/
- http://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/ or nice http://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

[LeviFiction]

Well, with good error checking you can present errors to the user should they arise. So that's not too much of an issue.

The really big issue is that the batch process command only runs the script, it doesn't communicate with the script in anyway. So creating a dialog that only opens at the beginning of the process is very hard. Believe me, I actually have just such a script on the back burner. Since I'm not good at using the TKInter GUI library with PSP I didn't want to risk doing something wrong and harming someone's current processes.

Seeing as Radim has offered a lot of good alternatives to BetterJPG those are my recommendations.

[bdfoto]

I have some experiences with scripting when work with 100's and 1000's of images in PSP. And it is not good idea at all. It silently skip errors. You have manualy check all output files.

For processing you need I recomend look on another tools and try:

- http://www.faststone.org/index.htm
- http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/downl ... er/imbatch ...author is really open, and gladly implements some good new ideas
- http://www.irfanview.com/
- http://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/ or nice http://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

Thank you to both Radim and LeviFiction

[Radim]

Since I'm not good at using the TKInter GUI library with PSP I didn't want to risk doing something wrong and harming someone's current processes.

I found quite "new" book on topic - http://www.packtpub.com/tkinter-gui-app ... tshot/book