This Paint Shop Pro script for PSP X, 9 and 8 takes a folder and converts all 300ppi jpg's and png's in it to 200ppi.
This is very handy when you want to share or upload files with and to other scrappers or sites. 200ppi looks just as good and is much smaller in file size. And because you also get to keep the folder with the 300ppi files, you have your files ready for the printshop that insists on 300ppi.
The attached script is still in beta, just to be sure. The steps are:
- With File, Open, open an image from the folder whose content you want to convert.
- Run the script.
- Go to the directory the original folder is in, and you will see a folder with the same name, only with 200 appended at the end of its name. This folder contains your newly converted 200ppi images.
The File, Open part is essential: it's the only way the script can find the files you want to convert. So don't use the browsers, and make sure the active image on your workspace was opened with File, Open.
Please let us know if you find glitches or have suggestions. The script is part of a plan by Sally Beacham to convert all 300ppi people.
From: "Jos Croeze" j.c.croeze@home.nl200 pixels per inch Link: Resolution
From Lori Davis: Yes, I wondered whether you meant half the file size rather than half the pixel dimensions. Folks here should realize that, as you indicate above, the PNGs will have file sizes even less than 1/2 that of the original 300ppi versions. For JPEGs, you can't really predict the file size of the new images, since that will depend in part on the compression factors for both the originals and the converted files.
Lori
Sally Beacham wrote:
Yes - it's changing the PPI to 200 and rescaling to maintain print size. And yes - there will be a BIG change in file size, as planned.
Hope everyone can test it out and give it a good shakedown. Jos and Joske have put a lot of time into this. Lori and I have given them some input but we really need some hard-core 300 ppi scrappers to give it a run!
From Trevor:
I did a test by opening PSP, then opening a jpg from a folder on my hard drive called My Documents\My Graphics
I then ran the script that had been placed in My Documents\My PSP Files\Scripts-Trusted
The file sizes are reflected in the following table:
Original jpg 300 File size Filesize at 200ppi Backlit redo.jpg 1,079 1,252 House photo.jpg 344 133 100_223.jpg 1,170 1,157 After 5.jpg 137 80 After5_high_key.jpg 499 223 After5_scattered.jpg 1,715 750 Obviously, the percentage file size difference is not the same, but there is a saving, and I didn't notice reduced quality.
Notice that one must place the script in your My Documents\My PSP Files\Scripts-Trusted folder, and that one must start Paint Shop Pro, and then open a file that resides in a specific document folder. The script runs from PSP version 8 onwards.