Category Archives: ImageSizer

All posts and information related to the ImageSizer AIR application.

ImageSizer — and beyond(!)

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It’s been a couple of years since I either started working on ImageSizer or it went public (I can’t remember which) and development has stalled a bit – but now I feel it’s time to get things back on track.  So here’s the plan.

ImageSizer, now.

ImageSizer is now up to version 0.6.1 – not that the version numbers are anything but arbitrary, of course.  You can import images, rotate them, crop them and resize the lot and output them to your machine.  It works, but the code is a little out of date now, my code-signing certificates are out of date, and I really want to try something new.  So… Continue reading →

ImageSizer 0.5.3 is now available!

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Wow.  Because I’m so lazy at actually blogging about things, at least two full versions of ImageSizer have come and gone since my last post, so this is going to be a round-up of all of the cool things that’ve been introduced to ImageSizer recently.

Individual files output

Individual files output

“Hey, that sounds like a good idea.”

ImageSizer initially started as a batch image resizer, and still is, but it seems a little over-restrictive to only be able to export files in a folder or compressed archive.  So now we have an individual files output panel.  Tacked onto the previous encoding output screen is a new option in the top left corner, labelled “Individual file export options” (perhaps that needs rephrasing).  Click that and the view will shift, showing you a list of the files that’ve just been resized, so you can grab individual files, instead of a single folder.

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ImageSizer updated! (again)

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything substantial, and in a sense this post isn’t going to buck that trend!

ImageSizer version 0.4.12.4 is available on the AIR Marketplace and via the automatic update framework. Much to my dismay ImageSizer version 0.4.12 went out into the wild with some showstopping bugs, and it’s taken a long time for me to devote enough time to hunting them down and fixing them. Version 0.4.12.4 should finally kill off that bug – namely because I’ve managed to work out what it was. (I’ll get to that in a moment.)

If you’ve tried to use ImageSizer and found that it didn’t work then I apologise, and encourage you to download the latest version of ImageSizer from the AIR Marketplace and give it another shot! I’ve improved my pre-release testing process and am in the process of refactoring the internal code – which should both stop bugs like this from occuring again and also improve the extensibility of ImageSizer and make everything faster and a little more robust!

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ImageSizer version 0.4.9 released!

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It’s been quite a while coming, but a new version of ImageSizer is now available. Here’s a little look at what’s new…

Optional custom chrome:

Optional custom chrome

Introduced as a part of our bid to follow ‘application best practice’, you can now enable or disable the custom chrome and window transition effects.  There’s plus sides to both custom and native OS chromes, but the point is that it’s always nice to let you choose!  The native OS chrome has better integration and performance than a custom chrome, but doesn’t always look quite so nice – and can’t have the same funky window window transitions.  It’s also going to be more consistent with the window chrome of other desktop applications, and gives you a noticeable performance boost on lower spec machines.

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ImageSizer – feedback screen fail. :-/

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This is a ‘public service announcement’.  Basically, the ImageSizer feedback screen hasn’t always been working.  If you’ve used it already to send your feedback, there’s a good chance that the message wasn’t delivered, regardless of the confirmation screen you may have seen.  

It’s all fixed now, but if you’ve sent feedback or have a burning comment to make then please, send it again. (And sorry for the trouble.)

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