#1 2015-10-04 18:55:08

brontosaurusrex

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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dropimage (share your scrots from dropbox with thumbnail), a script

Reposting from #! forums due to popular demand

It's a bash script:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bront … /dropimage

Usage (dropbox must be running):

dropimage scrot.png

or

dropimage *.png

or full workflow example

dropbox.py start && cd Dropbox/Public && scrot -q 0 -d 9 some.png && dropimage some.png

will generate "invisible" .thumbs (in same directory) and code for pasting into forums (clipboard automagically armed). 

example output:

Ideas:
- use mktemp? < done
- add more checks (isImage?, wasThumbGenerated?, whatDoesDropbox.py.Think?) < no.
- perhaps add some sort of 'dropimage scrot' option
- echo html version in terminal (not just linkage, entire html 5 page), but keep forum version in clipboard
- speed: image processing could be done first (before dropbox.py) and in parallel. < low priority

Bugs:
- only working when run in the dir at the moment < fixed.
- images with alpha (with small padding) are not nicely thumbnailed < fixed

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2015-10-04 20:54:26)

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vasa1

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: dropimage (share your scrots from dropbox with thumbnail), a script

Hi,

You have

-q 0

in

dropbox.py start && cd Dropbox/Public && scrot -q 0 -d 9 some.png && dropimage some.png

I have scrot version 0.8-13 (on Lubuntu 14.04 LTS) and for that version man scrot says that -q can have values from 1 (lowest quality) to 100 (highest quality).

  -q, --quality NUM
       Image quality (1-100) high value means high  size,  low  compression.
       Default: 75. (Effect differs depending on file format chosen).

Assuming that -q 0 isn't unintended, what purpose does it have in your code?

Edit: I was curious and so I ran scrot with -q 0, -q 1, -q 10, and -q 75

scrot -q  0 36964
scrot -q  1 36824
scrot -q 10 37565
scrot -q 75 68753

So scrot -q 0 works.

Last edited by vasa1 (2015-10-09 04:04:25)

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brontosaurusrex

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Re: dropimage (share your scrots from dropbox with thumbnail), a script

@vasa1: In png case -q 0 means max compression (quality is obviously the same, as png is lossless).

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vasa1

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Re: dropimage (share your scrots from dropbox with thumbnail), a script

@vasa1: In png case -q 0 means max compression (quality is obviously the same, as png is lossless).

Thanks for clarifying. It wasn't clear to me from scrot's man page.

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