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Actions
The Actions menu groups groups commands working on the selected items in the items found list. In order to select more than one item in the list, click on the row holding down the Command key. If you want the action command acts on the whole list of the items found, firstly click on the item found list and then call the menu item "Edit:Select All". More than including the functions already available through the keyboard and mouse (Open File, Reveal File, Remove File, Delete File, Trash File), this menu grants actions that let you export image files, icons and pathnames (we will add more actions in the future):

• Save Pathname List:
Exports a text file listing the pathnames of the selected items. The user can choose to save the pathname as Unix style or as MacOS Classic style.
  • Example of Unix Path (with slash "/" delimiter character):
    /Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/gfx/csyn13.jpg
    /Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/gfx/n102.jpg
    /Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/gfx/n103a.jpg
    /Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/gfx/n103b.jpg
    /Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/gfx/n103c.jpg
  • Example of OS 9 Path (with colon ":" delimiter character):
    Macintosh HD:Library:Documentation:Help:MacHelp.help:Contents:Resources:English.lproj:gfx:csyn13.jpg
    Macintosh HD:Library:Documentation:Help:MacHelp.help:Contents:Resources:English.lproj:gfx:n102.jpg
    Macintosh HD:Library:Documentation:Help:MacHelp.help:Contents:Resources:English.lproj:gfx:n103a.jpg
    Macintosh HD:Library:Documentation:Help:MacHelp.help:Contents:Resources:English.lproj:gfx:n103b.jpg
    Macintosh HD:Library:Documentation:Help:MacHelp.help:Contents:Resources:English.lproj:gfx:n103c.jpg
• Extract Icons:
Extracts the icons from the selected items and saves each one to a file.
The user can choose the graphic format (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF) and whether skip the duplicates. The icons will be sized 128 x 128 max.
• Export Images:
Exports at high speed and professional quality, all the images selected, with size, resolution, graphic format (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF) and files naming method chosen by the user. Also, in case of size change, the user can choose whether shrink or cut the final image, and whether enlarge or add paper (with a custom color) to the final image. iPPT can export all the images within one only destination folder chosen by the user, or it can create at the destination folder a copy of the source folders tree and save each image to the relative destination path. This way it will be so easy to export the low resolution images to an equal and parallel folders tree. iPPT can save the images with the same source filename or with a progressive number (adding how many zeros the user desires). It can also replace the existing files or exporting the new files with a new and uniqe file name. Last, in the Export Images panel, there are 4 functions returning the min and max size of all the selected images. These functions are useful, for example, to uniform all the images size to the largest image size (shrinking/enlarging the images or cutting/adding paper).



  • Graphic Format Pop Up Menu: the images can be exported as (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF).
  • Skip duplicates: maybe you have on your archive (and on the iPPT selected items list) some image duplicated (with same bytes) maybe with different file names or different creation date, or on a different folder or disk. In cases like these, if this check-box is marked, iPPT will not save the images duplicated. It will save only the first one of the images duplicated. Images with different format are not considered equal. Equal means, e.g., files duplicated by the Finder.
  • Sizing Method Pop Up Menu: you can set the final size of the images in different ways:
    • Fixed Size: all the selected files will be exported with fixed size defined by the user. (e.g. 250 pixels x 250 pixels).
      In such a case, iPPT will always maintain the original proportion of the images (it doesn't distorce the image) and if the original size don't match the proportions of the final size, iPPT will fit the image within the shorter side, will calculate the other side proportionally, and will add paper to the final image (see sample here below). Depending of the bigger side, iPPT will add paper to the left and right sides of the image, or to the top and bottom sides of the image. The use can choose the color of the paper.
      If the original proportions are not equal to the final proportions, iPPT adds paper to the final image in order to create an image with the fixed size chosen.
      Original Image 3000 x 2000 pixels (here scaled) Final Image 300 x 300 pixels



      If the original proportions are equal to the final proportions, iPPT doesn't add paper.
      Original Image 3000 x 2000 pixels (here scaled) Final Image 300 x 200 pixels



    • Fixed Width: all the selected files will be exported with a fixed Width and with a proportional Height.
    • Fixed Height: all the selected files will be exported with a fixed Height and with a proportional Width.
      Since the final size change proportionally with the original size, iPPT never adds paper.
      Original Image 3000 x 2000 pixels (here scaled) Final Image (with fixed width chosen: 300).
      Result Size: 300 x 200 pixels



    • Set bigger side to: for each original image iPassepartout locates the bigger side (width or height) and set this side to the value chosen. Then it sets the other side to the proportional value. This way, the final images will have one of the two dimesions always equal to the value chosen.
    • Scale: all the images are scaled with the value chosen (50%, 200%,...)
  • Get Min Width, Get Max Width, Get Min Height, Get Max Height: with these commands you can get the smallest and biggest width and height of all the selected images. This is very useful to unify the final image size to an unique highest/lowest value.
  • Shrink and Enlarge:
    In case the original image size is greater than the final size, you can decide to Shrink the original image to the final size, or to cut paper (from the boards) from the original image.
    In case the original image size is smaller than the final size, you can decide to Enlarge the original image to the final size, or to add paper on the borders of the final image. You can choose the color of the paper.
  • File name Pop Up Menu:
    You can choose the way the final image files should be named. You can choose to save the final image with the same file name of the original image. Or you can choose to save the final image file with a progressive number, with one or more zero at the left of the file name. The last choise, "Progressive Max_Items.ext" puts in the filename as many digits as the digits of amount of files to export. e.g. if the images to be exported are 3671, the file names will always have 4 digits like 0008.ext or 0045.ext or 0399.ext or 2011.ext.
  • File name Conflicts:
    In case iPPT is going to export a file name that already exists in the destination folder, you can set iPPT to:
    • Export with new file name: the image with a new file name like "original copy 1.ext" and "original copy 2.ext" and "original copy 3.ext", etc...
    • Ask: set to be asked whether replacing the existing file or skipping the current image.
    • Replace it: replace the existing file.
  • Destination folder:
    At the bottom of the window you can choose the destination folder to export the image files to.
    You can choose to:
    • Export all the selected images to the same and only one destination folder.
    • Create a copy of the "source folder tree" within the destination folder, and save each image file to the relative path.
      This second options, let you get the following export:

      Original Files Pathnames:
      Volumes/Vacation/Caribbean/Cuba.tif
      Volumes/Vacation/Australia/Sidney.tif
      Volumes/Vacation/Africa/Madagascar.tif

      Exported to the destination Users/john/MyWebSite/

      Users/john/MyWebSite/Volumes/Vacation/Caribbean/Cuba.jpg
      Users/john/MyWebSite/Volumes/Vacation/Australia/Sidney.jpg
      Users/john/MyWebSite/Volumes/Vacation/Africa/Madagascar.tif

      preserving the original "source folder tree".
      At the end of the export, you can even locate, within the destination folder, the first folder you really need (like "Vacation" in this sample) and move it to a different location.