DasGenie: !Scrap: Add Icon Droplet

Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004

Add Icon Droplet

sips is very nice, but on the other hand, adding icons per drag and drop is nicer, so here you go with your applescript editor:

-- save in Script Editor as Application
-- drag files to its icon in Finder

on open some_items
    repeat with this_item in some_items
        try
            addicon_and_save(this_item)
        end try
    end repeat
end open

to addicon_and_save(this_item)
    try
        tell application "Image Events"
            launch
            set this_image to open this_item
            save this_image with icon
            close this_image
        end tell
    end try
end addicon_and_save

macosxhints has a nice Drag-and-drop script to quickly resize any image which brought this possibility to my attention.

01:14 - Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004

Comments

I have a similar script, but the problem is that the script ends up opening and re-encoding the JPEG file, which means it'll be a different size, and it will lose image quality. You can see that the data fork is a different size by doing 'ls -l' in a terminal.

I've been trying to figure a way around it, using sips, but sips seems to do the same thing. Any ideas?

Posted by: Winston at 24.11.04 05:56

Thanks for pointing this out to me. This is awful and totally unacceptable... reencoding JPEG files is the worst you can do when simply should add metadata.
So here are 2 apps that add icons less intrusively:
- http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/shareware.php
Thumbs up from devon, freeware and good
- http://www.mikethole.com/thumbnail/
Thumbnail Pro which is fancier (nice "Themes" for the icons) but also shareware

Posted by: Domink Wagner at 24.11.04 12:27