Requesting a Program to Convert to run on Macintosh

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Requesting a Program to Convert to run on Macintosh

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I am doing a session on running BR on the MAC at the upcoming conference. I would like to request a standalone program from anyone out there that you would like to see converted to run on the MAC. It will need
to be a standalone program that I can run on my own equipment and walk everyone through what changes if any need to be made to make it work on the MAC. A good one would include system calls to built in windows utilities and printing. If you have some test programs you have written to test out new br features, those might work as well. Sorry for the short notice, but I would like to have the program nailed down by Friday!

You can email me directly.

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Post by Gabriel »

You might try the old photosorter.

It takes advantage of modern BR features, uses a windows utility to rotate images, and prints.

I'm responding here on the forum instead of directly to you because I want to solicit the opinions of everyone.

You can find the photo sorter on one of your old conference CDs, or on the web here: ftp://dsg.ftpaccess.cc/Sage/Photo/PhotoSorter.zip

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Post by bluesfannoz »

What windows utility does it use, as I would need to likely find an equivalent for the MAC.

I will take a look.

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Post by Gabriel »

It uses one called Identify which identifies the width and height of a photo in pixels. I use it to determine weather to print the photo portrait or landscape in the case of printing.

And it use a tool called Convert which can do lots of things with photos, but I only use it to rotate them when the user presses F8 or F7.

Both of these should be fairly simple to find for a Mac, as Mac is the main OS of graphic artists, no?

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Post by bluesfannoz »

Looks as if there are Mac versions of both those utilities so we maybe on to something here.

I will take a look at your code and see how much work needs to be done, to determine if it will work in our time allotment.
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Post by Gabriel »

I'm a mac neophyte.. I got one of my programs running on a mac over client server with lots of help from you guys. But I felt like my right-click finger was missing (even though I realize now that macs do have a right-click).

I didn't know there were command line tools in Mac OS. And I probably have a bunch of other crazy misconceptions as well. So I'm really looking forward to this presentation.

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Post by bluesfannoz »

OSX is just a graphical front end to a variation of Linux/Unix so you have all the typical command line utilities that come with unix, if you know how to access them.
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Post by bluesfannoz »

I have about 95% of the photosort program working on the MAC. Only thing that I have had to change was the Execute statements in regards to running the utilities you were using. I am going to have to use a utility called VLC in place of your media player. That is the only part I don't have working yet.

Anybody else have a simple program they would like to see run on a MAC?
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