Systeme D

9 January 2008

Wow

Just, wow. I've never encountered sips before on OS X, and stumbled across it while looking for some way of batch-converting PDFs to JPEGs. It's a stunner - lightning fast, easy to use, good quality results.

This has made the process of making article thumbnails for the WW website a whole load easier.

Documentation could be better, but hey. man sips for what there is.

Thanks Apple!

Comments

Hey Richard, I told you about sips years ago! It's good, except cries out for a way to crop other than symmetrically around the centre.

BTW for image tiling, ImageMagick's convert is something you probably already know about. Use it without the x and y offset to make tiles.

imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#crop

One more thing: the best way to crop jpegs is to compile your own version of jpegtran with the croppatch. Super-quick and lovely-n-lossless.

sylvana.net/jpegcrop/jpegtran/

Posted by Laurence Penney on 15.1.08 17:26

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