Sun 17th Apr 2005
Auto-resizing of images
Posted terribly early in the morning, filed under Blogging.I found a need for a tool the other day - blogsome has a 300k size limit on image file uploads. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have image files automatically resized/recompressed so they are smaller than a certain size…I wonder if this is possible.
I’d like to see this feature in ecto. Rather than just presets, make a ’smart action’, that automatically chooses image size/compression to make the image fit in a certain amount of data.
So How do you post all your pictures on the posts? Do you resize the pictures first and then add them through the use of a table?
Cool Website by the way, i always like looking at pictures of house renovations.
2 weeks, 4 days after the fact.
I actually use ecto to post my images, and it is set up to automatically resizes images to resolutions, not to file size.
2 weeks, 5 days after the fact.
I am trying to move all my posts from Blogger to blogsome by taking my copies in ecto and getting them into the new blogsome account in ecto. Is there an easy way to do it besides copy, paste a bunch of new posts?
Also, how do you use ecto to post pictures to blogsome? It doesn’t seem to work for me.
1 month after the fact.
Easiest way to move posts from one blog to another: edit a post, and change the blog in the popup menu at the bottom of the window, and then publish again.
If you want to keep the post dates the same, you’ll need to be a bit trickier. Make a new AppleScript in ecto’s scripts directory with the following text:
tell application “ecto”
set _draft to document 1
tell _draft
set _date to entry date
set current personality to “Blogsome”
set entry date to _date
do post
end tell
end tell
Of course, change “Blogsome” to whatever your ‘personality’ is called (from the popup menu you can see what they are).
Then, edit a post, and use this script to republish it to the new server, complete with date.
I’ll write this up into a proper post, if I haven’t already.
1 month after the fact.
Oh, and I just drag an image into ecto, and it posts it. You will need to double-click it and change the settings so the file size is less than 300k…
1 month after the fact.
A quick questoin about ecto and blogsome and pictures in posts. Are you able to format your posts with pictures in order to have text running in a block on the side of a picture? I can put pictures in below and above text, but not beside it. Any thoughts?
1 month, 1 week after the fact.
Not really. See this post for details.
1 month, 1 week after the fact.
Hah! When I last viewed this post, there was a Google Ad that pointed to a site offering just this, a program that resizes images, to a particular file size if desired…
3 months, 2 weeks after the fact.