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iCan | Extra Suites | Image Info | Dialog Studio | PhotoBook

Site updated 10 August 2004

 iCan - Update 10 August

 Image Info - Update 10 August


Image Info RB -
Update 10 August


Extra Suites -
Update 9
February

JPEG Meta Preserve -
New 3 February



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Version 3.0.5- Updated 10 August
A customizable trashcan for OS X desktops
for those who still miss the one in OS 9.

Registered users can download new bonus themes via their original bonus theme URL.

iCan is is a trashcan for OS X which sits on the desktop. It's interactive - it appears empty when it's empty, and full when it's full, just like the one in OS 9.

You can drag to it, unmount disks with it, click it to open the trash folder, and it responds to the Finder's command-delete.

Choose any style of trash can using any of the included iCan Themes. If you wish to make your own themes, it's easy, and instructions are provided.

iCan version 3.0 is fully compatible with OS X 10.3 (Panther).

Version 3.0 uses a new theme format based on png files instead of icn files which means that older style themes are not compatible with this version. However, iCan Theme Studio (see below) can be used to easily convert them to the new format.


Features


 It is dynamic, appearing empty when it's empty, and full when it's full
 Includes options to force empty the trash and delete locked items
 Includes a secure delete option
 It is fully customizable using iCan trash themes
 Includes several themes made by several talented icon designers
 Themes can contain sounds for deleting and emptying the trash
 It handles aliases properly, don't worry about deleting their originals
 and more...




New
in version 3.0.5


 Fixed several problems introduced in the last three releases including:
- Sometimes items would not be deleted when dragging them to the trash
- Sometimes disks would not be ejected when dragging them to the trash.




iCan Theme Studio.

iCan Theme Studio is an application to make light work of creating iCan themes. It is fully drag and drop, and can be used to convert the old style themes to the new iCan version 3.0 format.

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Version 1.1
- Updated 9 February 2003
Over 80 new commands for AppleScript

Feature Requests

If you have a feature or idea you'd like to see added to Extra Suites, send me an email and I'll see if it can be added.

Extra Suites is a background scripting application
which contains over 80 commands for AppleScripters using OSX. Commands include:

 Move and click mouse
 Autotype text (type key using command, etc)
 System info, computer info, screen info
 String commands (hex to string, sort strings, etc.)
 Interface commands (display message, progress)
 Activate/deactivate font
 Plus many more...

New in version 1.1

 Added "ES select menu item" to simulate choosing a menu item from a menu
Added "ES get volume" to get the sound volume level
 Added "ES set volume" to set the sound volume level
 Added "ES list screen resolutions" to return a list of available display resolutions
 Added "ES set screen resolution" to set a new display resolution
 The "ES create thumbnail icon" now works again
 Deleted the "ES transfer icon" command which never worked properly



Freely distribute scripts written for Extra Suites to end users


Registered users can distribute run-only scripts for free use by unregistered end users. End users won't have to pay for Extra Suites to use scripts written by registered users. By adding one line of code to scripts, Extra Suites will run as if registered on any machine.

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Version 3.1.2
- Updated 10 August 2004
A solution for AppleScripters for retrieving information about images

Image Info can retrieve more information about most image files than any other application. It doesn't open images to return the info, so it works very fast. It is also fully AppleScriptable, which means you can build it into a prepress, catalog, or other type of workflow.

New in version 3.1.2

 Fixed an error introduced in 3.1.1 where IPTC info wasn't returned.

New in version 3.1.1


 Fixed an error where some older IPTC data in the resource forks of files could not be read.
 Fixed an error where some jpegs would not return exif info

 Fixed an error where some newer PostScript files would not be read correctly
 Fixed an error in Image Info LE where DSC1 file color modes could return as "grayscale" instead of "CMYK"
 Fixed an AppleScript conflict between IPTC Credit and IPTC Copyright
 Fixed an AppleScript error where DCS format values was returned as "unknown"
 Modified returned enumerated AppleScript values (e.g. RGB, JPEG) to return as strings ("RGB", "JPEG") which will cause less script compile and run errors.



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Image Info REALbasic Classes 1.0.9 - Updated 10 August 2004

Image Info is also available for REALbasic developers, as a Personal licence, and as a Developer Distribution license.

Image Info RB Classes are easy to use and can return almost any piece of information about images including EXIF and IPTC very quickly.

New in version 1.0.9

Fixed:

 Fixed an error introduced in 1.0.8 where IPTC info wasn't returned.

New in version 1.0.8

Fixed:

 fixed an error where some older IPTC data in the resource forks of files could not be read.
 fixed an error where some jpegs would not return exif info
 fixed possible IDE compile error when verifying if resource forks exist
 fixed an error where some newer PostScript files would not be read correctly
 fixed an error in Image Info LE where DSC1 file color modes would return as "grayscale" instead of "CMYK"

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Version 3.0
- 18 July 2001
A collection of 30 AppleScripts for QuarkXPress

Xpress|Scripts is a collection of thirty AppleScripts for QuarkXPress. This version contains many new scripts and updates some of the scripts from version 2.0 (of 1995) to them bring up to date with QuarkXPress 4.11.


XPress|Scripts are supplied as run only (except for three which are editable) and are fully operational and free for general use. There are two flavors of this collection, one contains script files, and the other contains script application files [applets].

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Version 3.1.1
- 20 December 2001
qxp photobookImage catalog tool for QuarkXPress

QXP PhotoBook is a utility which aids QuarkXPress users to compile catalogs of images very quickly with a minimum of setup and user interaction. Catalogs are saved as QuarkXPress documents, with an option to then save as Acrobat PDF files. Some uses for QXP PhotoBook are printing out thumbnails of images contained in a folder, or cataloguing a CD library of images to QuarkXPress files.

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Version 2.0.2
- 30 July 2001
A wysiwyg GUI editor for AppleScripters

Dialog Studio creates Dialog Director scripts using a familiar drag and drop interface with a compliment of tools to help in dialog creation. Users can create dialogs containing buttons, text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, gauges, boxes, and more, all without typing a single character of AppleScript code. Also, an included feature, the Imbedder Tool, makes incorporating custom icons in your script a snap.

Dialog Studio is available exclusively from MacScripter.net


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