-set the paths to the PNG file and GIF file that we will eventually save.The word that follows “on open” is the name of the array of filenames, or list of filenames, that were dropped onto the script. When you add an “on open” handler to your script, you are giving it the ability to accept dropped files. The open handlerĪll of the rest of our script is going to go between two lines: the “on open” handler. Normal variables can also generally only be used inside the “handler” where they were created. Properties differ from normal variables in that normal variables are lost every time the script quits. If you change a property’s value within your script, that property stays at the new value the next time you run the script. While we’re not using this feature here, properties are also useful because they are retained from one incarnation of the script to another. And within the upload properties, we note that we are not using our preferred transfer protocol. For example, we’ve separated these properties into two groups: one group of image properties, and one group of upload properties. They are notes so that we can remember what we were doing with this portion of our script. -Cyberduck doesn't yet support applescriptable secure ftpĪs in most programming languages, text values (such as “headline”) must be surrounded by quotes, and numeric values (such as 480) are not surrounded by quotes.Īll lines beginning with two dashes are ignored by AppleScript.
property destinationFolder : "public_html/Banners".property imagePath : "Web Site:Banners".If I ever need to change any of these values, I will be able to do so at the top of the script I won't have to search them out throughout the code. Here, we are going to set out some constant values that I don’t want to embed throughout the script. Properties may be used throughout your script. The first part of the script sets up some properties.
#CURVED WRITING IN GRAPHICCONVERTER SOFTWARE#
You can’t get much better software support than that! Properties I wrote Lemkesoft’s support asking if it was possible to set transparency via AppleScript they replied with a new beta version of GraphicConverter with this feature added. GraphicConverter 5.6.3 (or higher, most likely) is the version of GraphicConverter that supports setting up transparency in an image via AppleScript.
#CURVED WRITING IN GRAPHICCONVERTER MAC OS X#
This AppleScript project requires GraphicConverter 5.6.3, Cyberduck 2.4.6, and possibly Mac OS X 10.4.2. With AppleScript, this process can be completely automated. Up until recently, this meant opening GraphicConverter, telling it to “Smart Trim” the image, manually adding or subtracting the right amount of margin to get a 480 by 55 pixel image, setting white to be transparent, and saving as a PNG and a GIF file. Since I have POV resize the headline text to match the size of the banner, the vertical size varies according to the size of the headline. However, the new banner ad is not always exactly the same size.
Whenever I create a new headline article, I paste the headline text into a POV script, and have it create the new image. The banner ad for The Walkerville Weekly Reader at the top of most Mimsy pages is a POV-created image. I still use Persistence of Vision heavily.
My first QuickTime movies were created with Persistence of Vision creating the stills and GraphicConverter putting them together into a movie. GraphicConverter has been part of my Internet toolbox almost since I first started putting images on-line.
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