DONE: app to rotate multi-page images

[skwire]

@deano: One thing I noticed in the sample file you sent me is that, not only is it vertically flipped, it's horizontally flipped as well.  Are they all like this?

[deano]

Can you double check this?  I checked the attachment again and it just looks vertically flipped to me i.e if i rotate it 180 degrees it would look normal.   

It shouldn't be horizontally flipped.  That would make it mirrored, yes and not easily readable?  None of the faxed images I get are like that, they are all just upside down.

[skwire]

Doh...my stupid error.   

[skwire]

Give this a shot and see if it's what you had in mind.  If so, I'll set up the typical webpage, write a help file and release it.

http://skwire.dcmemb...urvy/TIFFsyTurvy.zip

DONE: app to rotate multi-page images

[deano]

Give this a shot and see if it's what you had in mind.  If so, I'll set up the typical webpage, write a help file and release it.

http://skwire.dcmemb...urvy/TIFFsyTurvy.zip
 (see attachment in previous post)

-skwire (July 04, 2010, 03:01 PM)

Superb, it works!  Many thanks.  I love a simple app that does exactly what you need it to do

Just one thing; i clicked Help,About Contents, and the message box is empty. Edit-  sorry you clearly said you would write a Help File. 

Presumably this would have the answers to these questions;

* What does Edit, Launch File do?
* What do the Get data... and Update highlighted... buttons do?

[rjbull]

Love the name   

[deano]

Love the name   

-rjbull (July 04, 2010, 03:24 PM)

I forgot to mention that, that's superb naming  

[skwire]

Superb, it works!  Many thanks.  I love a simple app that does exactly what you need it to do

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:21 PM)

Great.  I'm glad it's working for you.  =]

Just one thing; i clicked Help,About and the message box is empty.  Presumably this would have the answers to these questions;

* What does Edit, Launch File do?
* What do the Get data... and Update highlighted... buttons do?

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:21 PM)

Doh, forgot to take out the Edit, Launch entry.  As for the other buttons:

• Get data from focused row -- This will populate the the radio button cluster and the output directory field below the listview with the data from the focused row.
• Update highlighted rows -- Let's say you just dropped a slew of TIFF files on the listview.  Highlight them all, choose a rotation, set the output directory field and then click that button.  ALL highlighted rows will be updated with your entered values.  It's a quick way to set the rotation/output data for lots of rows.

[deano]

Superb, it works!  Many thanks.  I love a simple app that does exactly what you need it to do

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:21 PM)

Great.  I'm glad it's working for you.  =]

Just one thing; i clicked Help,About and the message box is empty.  Presumably this would have the answers to these questions;

* What does Edit, Launch File do?
* What do the Get data... and Update highlighted... buttons do?

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:21 PM)

Doh, forgot to take out the Edit, Launch entry.  As for the other buttons:

• Get data from focused row -- This will populate the the radio button cluster and the output directory field below the listview with the data from the focused row.
• Update highlighted rows -- Let's say you just dropped a slew of TIFF files on the listview.  Highlight them all, choose a rotation, set the output directory field and then click that button.  ALL highlighted rows will be updated with your entered values.  It's a quick way to set the rotation/output data for lots of rows.

-skwire (July 04, 2010, 03:31 PM)

Thanks, that makes sense.

Mucho thanks once again Skwire, I do believe that this will provide a genuine boost to my productivity.  I'll drop you a donation as a token of my appreciation.

On a technical note would you be able to explain how you did it?  Was it all autohotkey or something else?  And would you have the source code?  As I said way back at the top of this thread I am trying to learn how to create different kinds of programs on Windows and would like to make things like this for other people as well.

[skwire]

Mucho thanks once again Skwire, I do believe that this will provide a genuine boost to my productivity.  I'll drop you a donation as a token of my appreciation.

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:45 PM)

You're welcome.  I'm happy to help out.

On a technical note would you be able to explain how you did it?  Was it all autohotkey or something else?  And would you have the source code?  As I said way back at the top of this thread I am trying to learn how to create different kinds of programs on Windows and would like to make things like this for other people as well.

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:45 PM)

The interface is all AutoHotkey.  The grunt work behind the scenes is done by convert.exe from the ImageMagick suite and tiffinfo.exe from the LibTIFF suite.  I use convert.exe to do the rotation and converting from TIFF to JPG (using the "/rotate #" parameter).  The tiffinfo.exe I use for determining how many pages are in the TIFF file.

AutoHotkey is superb for making front-ends that utilise commandline executables and/or DLL files.  Initially, I had intended to use the GDI+ library to do it all but I couldn't find a way to get the number of pages in a TIFF file using it so I wrote it using IrfanView doing the image manipulation.  However, I remembered that you wanted to use this at work and IrfanView's license doesn't allow that without paid registration.  I then rewrote it using the current ImageMagick/LibTIFF method, hence the delay in getting it to you.

Does that help clear things up?

[deano]

Mucho thanks once again Skwire, I do believe that this will provide a genuine boost to my productivity.  I'll drop you a donation as a token of my appreciation.

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:45 PM)

You're welcome.  I'm happy to help out.

On a technical note would you be able to explain how you did it?  Was it all autohotkey or something else?  And would you have the source code?  As I said way back at the top of this thread I am trying to learn how to create different kinds of programs on Windows and would like to make things like this for other people as well.

-deano (July 04, 2010, 03:45 PM)

The interface is all AutoHotkey.  The grunt work behind the scenes is done by convert.exe from the ImageMagick suite and tiffinfo.exe from the LibTIFF suite.  I use convert.exe to do the rotation and converting from TIFF to JPG (using the "/rotate #" parameter).  The tiffinfo.exe I use for determining how many pages are in the TIFF file.

AutoHotkey is superb for making front-ends that utilise commandline executables and/or DLL files.  Initially, I had intended to use the GDI+ library to do it all but I couldn't find a way to get the number of pages in a TIFF file using it so I wrote it using IrfanView doing the image manipulation.  However, I remembered that you wanted to use this at work and IrfanView's license doesn't allow that without paid registration.  I then rewrote it using the current ImageMagick/LibTIFF method, hence the delay in getting it to you.

Does that help clear things up?

-skwire (July 04, 2010, 04:04 PM)

Yep, that's pretty interesting, I'm going to see what I can code with autohotkey as well as continuing with C#.    Cheers, 

[skwire]

Website | Download
v1.0.2 - 2011-02-05
    + Added option to handle F Class TIFFs.  Enable this option if your
      resulting JPEG files appear to be squashed or stretched horizontally and
      process the list again.  (Thanks, H. Mechanic)
    + Added option to output straight to PDF instead of separate JPEG files.
    * The default output directory for added files is now the same folder as the
      original file.  This can be changed using the 'Modify list data' section.
      (Thanks, H. Mechanic)

[deano]

Website | Download
v1.0.2 - 2011-02-05
    + Added option to handle F Class TIFFs.  Enable this option if your
      resulting JPEG files appear to be squashed or stretched horizontally and
      process the list again.  (Thanks, H. Mechanic)
    + Added option to output straight to PDF instead of separate JPEG files.
    * The default output directory for added files is now the same folder as the
      original file.  This can be changed using the 'Modify list data' section.
      (Thanks, H. Mechanic)

-skwire (February 05, 2011, 03:32 AM)

I can't seem to grab this - the download stops about two-thirds of the way through?

[Ath]

Hm, looks like that server needs a kick in the butt (or a disk is failing). It's slow as mud through a coffee filter... from about 2 MB of 3.55 and stopped at 2.34 MB, first part was quite OK

[skwire]

I can't seem to grab this - the download stops about two-thirds of the way through?

-deano (February 07, 2011, 04:23 AM)

Hm, looks like that server needs a kick in the butt (or a disk is failing). It's slow as mud through a coffee filter... from about 2 MB of 3.55 and stopped at 2.34 MB, first part was quite OK

-Ath (February 07, 2011, 04:47 AM)

Seemed to work for me just now...

[deano]

I can't seem to grab this - the download stops about two-thirds of the way through?

-deano (February 07, 2011, 04:23 AM)

Hm, looks like that server needs a kick in the butt (or a disk is failing). It's slow as mud through a coffee filter... from about 2 MB of 3.55 and stopped at 2.34 MB, first part was quite OK

-Ath (February 07, 2011, 04:47 AM)

Seemed to work for me just now...

-skwire (February 07, 2011, 10:27 AM)

Yeah, the intertubes have become unclogged.

[Ath]

Just retried from another place, with another tube connected to the intertubes, and, although slow to start, got it in a few seconds this time.