Tue, 16 Jan 2007
Thumbscrew: It Is Alive
It's been a long time coming, I know. Thanks so much to everyone who waited patiently. But it's back, and it's good. Thumbscrew 1.0b11
It's Universal now. The problems I ran into with running subprocesses using a bundled Python are gone. I reimplemented the thumbnailer kernel using ObjC with the help of Scott Stevenson. Huge thanks, Scott.
It's got Growl support. We'll let you know bit by excruciating bit how Thumbscrew is doing, and when a batch is done.
Web page output is currently suspended while I evaluate the best way to generate output. I've used a variety of means in the past, and want something that is approachable by lots of users. Zope PageTemplates are pretty easy, and the syntax for developing new templates is pretty straightforward. XML and XSLT are maybe a little more universal, but I really don't know.
Take her out for a spin and let me know what you think!
Been waiting for a UB version. Heard so much about this app can't wait to try it.
Little confused...MacUpdate shows this as a 629 K download when its actually 3.8 Meg.
Looking forward to testing this baby out.
Posted by Ed Brenner at Tue Jan 16 15:45:42 2007
Little confused...MacUpdate shows this as a 629 K download when its actually 3.8 Meg.
Looking forward to testing this baby out.
Posted by Ed Brenner at Tue Jan 16 15:45:42 2007
Great! Had to do this manually until I discovered your great app! Thanks!
Posted by Daniel at Tue Jan 16 23:16:21 2007
Posted by Daniel at Tue Jan 16 23:16:21 2007
Congrats on making TUAW! When it came through in my RSS feed, I did a double-take. "Hey, isn't that Zac's app?" :)
Posted by Justin Streufert at Wed Jan 17 17:19:49 2007
Posted by Justin Streufert at Wed Jan 17 17:19:49 2007
Well done.
Unfortunately, I have many Windows clients who use Internet Explorer and png support is non existant.
is there any gif support in the future.
Otherwise, this is a very useful application!
Well done.
Posted by Peter Daugulis at Wed Jan 17 17:57:54 2007
Unfortunately, I have many Windows clients who use Internet Explorer and png support is non existant.
is there any gif support in the future.
Otherwise, this is a very useful application!
Well done.
Posted by Peter Daugulis at Wed Jan 17 17:57:54 2007
Noticed a bug: If you change the "Max Angle" you have to relaunch for the change to take effect.
Posted by Josh at Wed Jan 17 18:20:51 2007
Posted by Josh at Wed Jan 17 18:20:51 2007
Thanks! I run my club's website and have hundreds of photos in the queue for posting. I've been using Automator scripts to make thumbs in Photoshop, but this looks easier / better, and the price is right.
Just noticed the comment about PNG's. That won't work for me, hopefully this will JPG the thumb. Sadly, it's a Window$ world.
Posted by Bill at Wed Jan 17 19:51:38 2007
Just noticed the comment about PNG's. That won't work for me, hopefully this will JPG the thumb. Sadly, it's a Window$ world.
Posted by Bill at Wed Jan 17 19:51:38 2007
Cool app!
Just one question -- when I drop a picture on Thumbscrew, it always rotates the picture clockwise. Is there any way to make the rotation counter-clockwise?
Posted by Lorne Ipsum at Wed Jan 17 22:43:24 2007
Just one question -- when I drop a picture on Thumbscrew, it always rotates the picture clockwise. Is there any way to make the rotation counter-clockwise?
Posted by Lorne Ipsum at Wed Jan 17 22:43:24 2007
Peter and Bill: Turns out that GIF support was wickedly simple to implement. Look for an update tomorrow or Friday.
Josh: I haven't noticed that. It may be that the value is only getting updated when focus leaves the Max Angle field. I've successfully changed Max Angle between several batches.
Lorne: I haven't noticed that, either. I get randomly clockwise or counterclockwise rotated thumbnails.
Posted by Zachery Bir at Thu Jan 18 01:35:21 2007
Josh: I haven't noticed that. It may be that the value is only getting updated when focus leaves the Max Angle field. I've successfully changed Max Angle between several batches.
Lorne: I haven't noticed that, either. I get randomly clockwise or counterclockwise rotated thumbnails.
Posted by Zachery Bir at Thu Jan 18 01:35:21 2007
Hi!
Great application! It is currently featured on freemacware.com
This is really handy and adds a cool homey feel to my pictures.
Unfortunately, the photo hosting site, www.flickr.com only maintains transparency in images if the file type is .gif.
If it isn't too much trouble, gif support in a future release would RULE!
Thanks
Posted by C at Thu Jan 18 01:57:29 2007
Great application! It is currently featured on freemacware.com
This is really handy and adds a cool homey feel to my pictures.
Unfortunately, the photo hosting site, www.flickr.com only maintains transparency in images if the file type is .gif.
If it isn't too much trouble, gif support in a future release would RULE!
Thanks
Posted by C at Thu Jan 18 01:57:29 2007
Zachery,
OK, I guess I didn't run enough images through to see that Thumbscrew randomly angles things around. In the future, would it be possible to add an option to make this deterministic (say, I'd like to "screw" a dozen pictures, all CCW by 30 degrees)?
TIA,
Lorne
Posted by Lorne Ipsum at Thu Jan 18 23:41:40 2007
OK, I guess I didn't run enough images through to see that Thumbscrew randomly angles things around. In the future, would it be possible to add an option to make this deterministic (say, I'd like to "screw" a dozen pictures, all CCW by 30 degrees)?
TIA,
Lorne
Posted by Lorne Ipsum at Thu Jan 18 23:41:40 2007
If you paste an image (example- a screen cap) and the Save To Location is set to the default Same as original, the result ends up in /tmp as UNKNOWN.png (or .jpg or .gif).
And unless you are clever enough to look in the Activity Log, you'll never know where it went... or even if it worked at all, assuming it was small and your computer is fast.
Also, if you paste another image without changing any prefs, the new result will overwrite the older one without any warning or confirmation. Should probably at least ask before overwriting, with an option to overwrite all.
Also, the Activity Log window doesn't update when it is open.
Posted by al mccoy at Fri Jan 19 15:25:45 2007
And unless you are clever enough to look in the Activity Log, you'll never know where it went... or even if it worked at all, assuming it was small and your computer is fast.
Also, if you paste another image without changing any prefs, the new result will overwrite the older one without any warning or confirmation. Should probably at least ask before overwriting, with an option to overwrite all.
Also, the Activity Log window doesn't update when it is open.
Posted by al mccoy at Fri Jan 19 15:25:45 2007
Al: Thanks! Yeah, those are good observations. I'll try to find a more intuitive way of dealing with pasted images before 1.0 is finalized.
Posted by Zachery Bir at Fri Jan 19 17:48:18 2007
Posted by Zachery Bir at Fri Jan 19 17:48:18 2007
We love the app, but like Lorne Ipsum would like to see the ability to control the angle, especially when batch processing.
Posted by Marc Steel at Thu Jun 28 20:19:54 2007
Posted by Marc Steel at Thu Jun 28 20:19:54 2007
I can not bring up the preferences panel. It's gone!
Running 10.4.10
Any ideas? Just ran the update, and the same thing still happens.
Thanks.
Posted by Brian Howard at Fri Sep 28 15:31:28 2007
Running 10.4.10
Any ideas? Just ran the update, and the same thing still happens.
Thanks.
Posted by Brian Howard at Fri Sep 28 15:31:28 2007
Thumbscrew 1.0