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Hi All,

Wondering if the wisdom of the crowd can help me. I am writing an application that allows users to store images into a directory on their machine. What I need to do is check that the picture that they want to store meets certain minimum parameters; stuff like if less than 1280X768 or 150dpi then display a warning, if 75 dpi then reject, and if higher than 1280X768 or 150dpi then upload the file.

I am far from being fluent in OPUS Script, so if there is a non-script way, then I will be happier; however if OPUS Script is the way to go, then I can usually stumble my way around this.

Thanks in advance.

Rick

I'd be inclined to think you'd need more than scripting There is more than one work around, but I'd use Opus' DLL functions to access the necessary data. This of course requires that you locate or build a suitable DLL. If you have MS Office installed, the dsofile.dll apparently will let you access the properties stored on the details tab when you right click a file in explorer.

mack
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For extracting image file data I use Exiftool. It returns a wide range of information and can be put into a .bat file to both extract and write filename, size, exposure, dpi and a lot of other stuff. I'm currently using it with Opus 9 to sort and catalogue all my images and video files from 2005! You can find it at: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ It's a free program and does a great job of extracting Exif data from my .jpg and .mov files. I wouldn't disagree that with anything Mac says, but you can use Exiftool with Opus actions and the minimum of scripting.


Paul Conway