Apollo Black Dot Digital Image Resizer [Edit] [Edit]
Posted At : May 11, 2007 4:36 PM | Posted By : Wayne McFetridge
Related Categories: AIR,Apollo

Please note: This project is now fixed for the AIR runtime. BDDResizer

Please note: This project is now broken due to some changes between the alpha Apollo runtime and the new beta AIR runtime

I have wished for a rough and ready no frills image resizer for ages to help my clients resize images before attempting to upload them into Farcry or other CMS solutions that I build from time to time.

A lot of clients still insist on trying to upload hi-resolutions pictures and often resent the time it takes to get the picture up to the server. (They often send them to me to be "resized" grrrrr )

Obviously I am resizing on the server but client side image manipulation ( even if it is just to cut the picture down to half the size and let the server do the rest) is always a good idea in my books but too many of my web administrators (clients) don't have any image editing software on their computers. (There is always Paint but I have my limits)

Apollo to the rescue.

Introducing my Super Easy No Fuss No Features BDDResizer. (Yes it only saves as jpeg).

Thanks to head starts I found here and here

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Peter Baird's Gravatar Looks great. I've often come across the same need to do just a quick resize ... I know you're trying to keep this bare bones, but the one recommendation would be add support for batch resizing. That is, from the file dialog selecting multiple images and resizing all of them.
# Posted By Peter Baird | 5/11/07 9:40 PM
Mark King's Gravatar Or maybe just a batch resize of everything in a particular folder.
# Posted By Mark King | 5/12/07 3:45 PM
Ido Rosenthal's Gravatar It's a shame that you can't do this with normal as3 flash, that's the only real reason to use Apollo for this..
Its nice to give you'r client a closed App, but it was nicer to implement this in an Admin system..
# Posted By Ido Rosenthal | 5/13/07 5:42 PM
Born's Gravatar This is program no bad.
# Posted By Born | 11/1/07 12:36 AM
Nenad's Gravatar Doesn't work on the current release of AIR. Can you make an updated version?
# Posted By Nenad | 4/1/08 2:14 PM
Reshade's Gravatar I will have to check out this one. Then I can compare it to the one I have been using. Thanks
# Posted By Reshade | 5/3/08 2:21 AM
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