Kurz:     gibt Bilddimensionen OHNE Datatypes aus
Short:    Shows picture dimensions without datatypes
Author:   Christian Effenberger (youcan@amclust.de)
Uploader: Christian Effenberger (youcan@amclust.de)
Version:  1.2 (12-Nov-2003)
Type:     gfx/misc
Origin:   www.amclust.de/software/archive/
Requires: OS 2.x , CanDo Lib 3.00x


PURPOSE

    GetImageInfo 1.2 (12.11.2003), © 2001-2003 by Christian Effenberger

    The archive contains a small program to determine picture
    dimensions without the use of datatypes (headers only).

    Since I am working a lot with images that were included in
    HTML documents, it is useful to list image dimensions in a
    formated string to redirect the output back into the Document.

    Supported formats: BMP GIF IFF JPEG PBM PCX PNG PSD SUN TGA TIF XBM

                       Adobe Photoshop® Format        - PSF PSD
                       Graphics Interchange Format    - GIF 87a/89a
                       Interchange File Format        - ACBM DEEP FAXX ILBM
                                                        PBM  RGBN RGB8 YUVN
                       Joint Photografic Expert Group - JPEG JFIF
                       Paintbrush® Format             - PCX
                       Portable Bit/Grey/Pixmap       - PBM PGM PPM PNM
                       Portable Network Graphic       - PNG
                       Silicon Graphics® Image        - SGI
                       Sun Rasterfile Format          - SUN
                       Tagged Image File Format       - TIFF
                       TrueVision® Targa              - TARGA
                       Windows® Bitmap Format         - BMP
                       X-Window® Bit/Pixmap Format    - XBM XPM


    If started from Workbench - a FileRequester is poping up, asking
    for an Image file and then showing all Informations in a Reqeuster.

    If it's used through command line, certain special %-codes are available.



INSTALL

   Simply unpack the archive to anywhere you want.
   I prefer to copy the executable to C:.



REQUIREMENTS

   - OS 2.x
   - CanDo Lib 3.00x
   - minimum of memory (GetImageInfo reads only the header)



USAGE

    GetImageInfo FILE/A[,STRING]

    If started from Workbench - a FileRequester is poping up, asking
    for an Image file and then showing all Informations in a Reqeuster.

    If it's used through command line, certain special %-codes are available:
    The option STRING allows you to define an own output string. The default
    format string is...

        "%n: %w x %h [%f]"

    The format types are:

        %n  name of the file (the filename without path)
        %p  full path including trailing '/' and ':'
            (even, when you didn't provided one)
        %r  relative path including trailing '/'
        %w  width of image
        %h  height of image
        %f  short format of image (i.e. JPEG/JFIF)
        %e  expanded format of image (i.e. Joint Photografic Expert Group)
        %d  file date (DD-MMM-YYYY
        %s  file size (Bytes)
        %c  file comment
        %a  aspect ratio (4:3)

        %l  linefeed ($char 10)
        %t  tabulator ($char 9)

        use double " inside of STRING  (i.e. "%n ""string"" %f")



EXAMPLES

    GetImageInfo file.gif

      OUTPUT »  file.gif: 256 x 256 [GIF]


    GetImageInfo file.gif "<IMG SRC=""%n"" ALT=""%c"" WIDTH=%w HEIGHT=%h BORDER=0>"

      OUTPUT »  <IMG SRC="file.gif" ALT="comment" WIDTH=256 HEIGHT=256 BORDER=0>


    GetImageInfo file.gif "Image: %n%lDimension: %w×%h%lFormat: %f (%e)%lAspect Ratio: %a %lSize: %s Bytes%lDate: %d"

      OUTPUT »  Image: file.gif
                Dimension: 256×256
                Format: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
                Aspect Ratio: 1:1
                Size: 16582 Bytes
                Date: 21-May-1999



NOTE

    Sometimes GetImageInfo coul'd not determine Photoshop JPEG's, cause Adobe
    uses properitary chunks (totally sensless to the Web) in front of the width
    and height including chunk. Load these images and save them again as JPEG
    to fix the problem.



AUTHOR

    Christian Effenberger
    Suedstraße 2
    41564 Kaarst
    G E R M A N Y

    0049-(0)2131-669392
    youcan@amclust.de