Batch Edits

[Blue Wezza]

Hi

I have a lot of small images (a few hundred) which i need to cut the top and
bottom thirds from (to leave a 'letterbox' of the original in effect). Is
there a way to create a command to do this en masse?

TIA

Wesley

[ccnk]

Wesley?:

Sure there is. Perform a few actions that selects the Object (such as
Select All), Resize the canvas with the canvas command in Fireworks,
then copy the steps and save as a Command. Make sure all images aare the
same size though.

Note: using the Crop canvas command twice will most of the time result
in a horizontal line in the History panel, meaning the result can be
unexpected. You generally don't want this. So instead of taking the
risk, make 2 Commands instead and combine them into 1. This is what I
like to call "Embedded Commands". Make the two Commands and perform them
on the stage, then trun them into one Command, Optionally, you could
just perform the 2 Commands in chronological order in the Batch window.

Example:

Command 1: fw.getDocumentDOM().selectAll();
fw.getDocumentDOM().setDocumentCanvasSize({left:30 6, top:247, right:506,
bottom:457});

Command 2: fw.getDocumentDOM().setDocumentCanvasSize({left:30 6, top:247,
right:506, bottom:427});


Have fun!

Blue Wezza wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a lot of small images (a few hundred) which i need to cut the top and
> bottom thirds from (to leave a 'letterbox' of the original in effect). Is
> there a way to create a command to do this en masse?
>
> TIA
>
> Wesley
>
>

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I hope this helps,

Coen


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