Wednesday
Sep262007
BorderMaker Crossplatform Challenges
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 16:59
BorderMaker is a tool for creating borders, watermarks etc on digital images. The nice part is that it comes in a Windows version (written in Java) and a cross-platform version (JAR file). It's a pretty versatile tool and it's for free :).
The cross-platform version works on Apple OSX, but has the limitation that the EXIF information gets lost. On Windows the supplied jhead.exe program works without any problems. On OSX, the .exe file (obviously) won't work. Thankfully, there is a OSX compiled version available. The program (jhead) itself works like a charm, but won't work from the BorderMaker interface (under OSX).
The parameters ${src_file} and ${dest_file} generate errors. When the command is executed from the command line, everything works (with the variables substituted with the real filenames).
Currently I use a workaround on OSX by executing jhead after I have created the 'bordered' images wit the command explained on the jhead website;
The cross-platform version works on Apple OSX, but has the limitation that the EXIF information gets lost. On Windows the supplied jhead.exe program works without any problems. On OSX, the .exe file (obviously) won't work. Thankfully, there is a OSX compiled version available. The program (jhead) itself works like a charm, but won't work from the BorderMaker interface (under OSX).
./jhead -te "${src_file}" "${dest_file}"
The parameters ${src_file} and ${dest_file} generate errors. When the command is executed from the command line, everything works (with the variables substituted with the real filenames).
Currently I use a workaround on OSX by executing jhead after I have created the 'bordered' images wit the command explained on the jhead website;
jhead -te "originals\&i" *.jpg
Reader Comments