PeasyScale Graphic Image Resizer

[rcrsn51]

Anyhow, sorry to say it does not work in LightHouse64.

PeasyScale uses a 32-bit binary called peasyscale.bin.

I have sent you a 64-bit version of PeasyScale to test.

[edoc]

Sorry, again, got distracted ...

It appears to have worked, on steroids!

It chopped the 3.4g 2832x2128 image down to 53k 800x600!

I've been trying to test it on the Polaroid picture frame gadget but cannot get the computer to recognize it for some reason.

I need to buy a SC card and transfer the files there manually.

Thanks again and sorry for the delays!

[Moat]

I have yet to get any feedback on the new WidthxHeight feature.

WidthxHeight works perfectly in Precise 5.7.1 retro!

Possible bug in the rotate function, though (?) - selecting Rotate 90 seems to have lopped off a bit of the original image's bottom, and added a corresponding blank area to it's top (see attached image result, for clarity - original "Fontwizard" screenshot window on left, post-rotated on right) -

[Moat]

More artifacts, it seems... image attached, with individual pictures re-rotated back upright within Viewnior for easier comparison. "Rotate -90" trims a bit off the right and adds it back to the left - "Rotate 90" does so from bottom to top.

Bob

[Moat]

Just to add... Thinking it might have been an artifact from generating the above images via Precise's screenshot tool, I tried it on a random .jpeg downloaded from a webpage, with the same result as above.

Aack! Both "Flip vertical" and "Flip horizontal" are creating similar artifacts, too...

Bob

[rcrsn51]

Thanks for testing the WidthxHeight feature.

I have also seen those artifacts left by transformations, but only with some jpegs. They are coming from the jpegtran tool, not from PeasyScale itself.

I looked at the jpegtran options and there is a "-trim" argument that solves the problem. I guess that it trims off any non-standard parts of the image.

You can test this yourself with

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jpegtran -rotate 90 -trim old.jpg > new.jpg

I have posted a new version above with this fix.

[smokey01]

rcrsn51, Have you looked at aaphoto?

If so how does it compare to jpegtran?

I know aaphoto retains the exif data and it seems to have similar functionality.

[rcrsn51]

rcrsn51, Have you looked at aaphoto?

No, but I'm sure that it has more features.

The objective of PeasyScale is to provide some basic tools for Puppy users that do not require a larger third-party app like aaphoto.

[Moat]

You can test this yourself with

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jpegtran -rotate 90 -trim old.jpg > new.jpg

Played with this, and yes - definitely seems the better choice to (only possibly!) lose a few rows of pixels, than to have them transposed onto some other edge of the image, instead. Apparently, an unavoidable byproduct of 100% lossless transformations on images sized with some uneven multiple of block sizes... or something like that...

Thank for the fix, rcrsn51!

Bob

[rcrsn51]

Apparently, an unavoidable byproduct of 100% lossless transformations on images sized with some uneven multiple of block sizes... or something like that...

My thoughts exactly.

If I transform an original JPEG from my camera, I don't see the artifacts.

I have posted the patched v1.8 above.

[edoc]

Will v. 1.8 work on a 64-bit Puppy?

Also, are the results I saw what you'd expect?

The tiny new file size surprised me as when I reduce images manually, using GIMP, they are no where that small.

Thanks - David

[rcrsn51]

Will v. 1.8 work on a 64-bit Puppy?

I have attached the new 64-bit version.

Also, are the results I saw what you'd expect? The tiny new file size surprised me as when I reduce images manually, using GIMP, they are no where that small

I don't know what Gimp does. All that matters is the quality of the 800x600 image once it goes in the photo frame.

[edoc]

Thanks!

v. 1.8-64 works fine.

I didn't observe any differences in the output.

[charlie6]

Hi rscrn51,
tons of thanks for this awesome and new update
here is the french locale update
Cheers, Charlie
ps: the archives name has fr_BE in it ....
BUT the mo file is well located under /usr/share/locale/fr

[rcrsn51]

PeasyScale v1.9 posted above. See the Update notes.

[charlie6]

Hi Bill,
Many tons of thanks again for this new version !

note: in the po file , i have changed line 17 to:

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"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"

code= UTF-8 to get the accented characters.

Cheers, Charlie

[rcrsn51]

Merci Charlie. I made one small change this morning before I saw that you had already translated it!

Je suis désolé.

[charlie6]

Hi Bill,
no problem !
here it is
Cheers, Charlie

[Argolance]

Bonjour,
French translation file as attached file to be renamed as .mo file (PeasyScale 2.0).

Cordialement.

[jaylcee]

Hello there and happy new year!

I felt in love with Peasyscale while using Puppy Tahr. Now I switched to Xenial and installed it (pity that is not included in the basic installation) but it is not working: when I press "scale", an error message appears saying the file does not exist or, for a folder, that the file does not content any pictures. I tried with with different locations, pictures, folders.

Any idea? Thank you.