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- Short: Convert pictures using SViewII and Dopus
- Author: wayne@zahadum.u-net.com (Wayne Newark)
- Uploader: wayne@zahadum.u-net.com (Wayne Newark)
- Type: biz/dopus
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- $VER: SVConvert.dopus5 1.2 (17.08.99)
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- Note: It will only work with a registered version of SViewNG/SViewII.
-
- Minor update: Changed my Email address and added ability to use either German
- or English in requestors (thanks to Oliver Molz for the translations).
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- Description:
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- Whilst using DOpus Magellan have you ever required the need to convert a large
- number of picture files from one format to another.
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- This script uses SViewII, but could be changed to use SViewNG, to perform the
- necessary file conversions. As I wrote this script I decided to use it as an
- exercise in the use of multiple source and destination listers. Therefore
- SVConvert.dopus5 will process all the selected picture files from all the source
- listers it finds, converting them and then saving the results into all the
- destination listers.
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- As part of the conversion process the files are renamed. It does this by
- stripping off all text after the last '.' and appending an appropriate suffix.
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- Example: Converting to PNG - Pic1.iff becomes Pic1.PNG
- Converting to JPEG - Pic2.gif becomes Pic2.JPG
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- Installation:
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- Copy SVConvert.dopus5 to DOpus5:Arexx/
- SViewII.buttons and SViewII.menu to DOpus5:Buttons/
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- Before using you will have to amend the script giving it the location of
- SViewNG/SViewII and setting up the appropriate ARexx port name.
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- Usage:
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- ARexx DOpus5:ARexx/SVConvert.dopus5 {Qp} format*
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- * At present this is limited to: JPEG, BMP, PNG, DEEP, PCX, ILBM,
- PBM, RGFX, TIFF and SVG.
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- Read the Superview-Library.guide for further information on graphic formats
- supported by SViewNG/SViewII.
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- Both a button bank (SViewII.buttons) and Start Menu (SViewII.menu) have been
- supplied as an examples on how to use it.
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- Distribution:
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- Freeware. Feel free to email me if you have any suggestions for improvements or
- you find an error.
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- I give permission for the script to be put onto magazine cover-discs, software
- compilation discs, the DOpus Plus CD or the SView CD, as long as the text files
- in the archive accompanies it.
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