Image File Size Reduction

[Ray]

Jacques - interesting.  This might fit my needs.  Thanks for the idea.

On 8/6/2014 1:37 PM, Jacques Hausser wrote:
> I don't know fi it's the best way, but in one of my applications, I drag and drop an image and retrieve only it's file path (e.g. : put the dragData["files"] into photoFile); then I set the filename of existing empty images to this file path, adjust the size as needed (in reference to rectangles on the card) and export them "as jpeg" (and so I get rid of EXIF metadata). For the colors, I don't know...
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> Le 6 août 2014 à 18:18, Ray <ray at linkit.com> a écrit :
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>> Does anybody know of a way to reduce an image's disk size from within Livecode?
>>
>> Specifically, I'd like to be able to:
>>    1)  change the file from PNG to JPEG
>>    2)  change the color depth for PNG's to 8 bit
>>    3)  change the dimensions
>>
>> Regarding the last of these I know you can set it up and take a snapshot but I was kind of looking for a way to do all three of these without a lot of fussing around.
>>
>> If not, does anybody know of any command line tools which will do this?  Image Magick works but I don't believe they have a command prompt version.  Very PDF has a product named Document Converter but it only does #1.
>>
>> Many Thanks!
>>
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