@ MrJones:

Oh, yeah… I should add a link to it on the sidebar somewhere. :P

Here it is:
http://sites.maciak.net/setup-assistant

hey,
i was just looking for your all in one super ultimate god mode windows program (you should name it like that ;) ) but i couldnt find it neither in project nor anywhereelse.

Where did you hide it?
Greetings

@ Zel:

Ah, yes – good old IfranView. I haven’t used it in so long I completely forgot it existed. :)

There are lots of tools that do the resizing song and dance. There used to be a XP Powertoy that allowed you to do batch resize from the context menu. Also, the Microsoft Office Picture Manager tool does this job fairly well and surprisingly has a fairly good ratio of features to simplicity of use.

As for the aspect ratio – yeah, that was kinda by design. I opted for squashed images versus un-eaven gallery. I like your suggestion of adding padding though sometimes you would need to crop rather than pad. Looks like an interesting problem though.

I use Irfanview for my image conversion needs and it works fairly well. Batch conversion and renaming are there, and you can select entire folders (with or without subdirectories) or individual files. It’s also fairly light, and doesn’t seem to include ad or spyware. I really couldn’t tell you much more about it since I rarely need to use it. As far as I know, it doesn’t generate the HTML for a gallery but you could probably write a Python script to do it in less time than I took to type this message.

As for the magic of the .NET framework… Good thing your images weren’t in some less popular format, or you would have been in a bit more trouble. I tested the app and the resizing part could be improved upon, for one it doesn’t maintain the aspect ratio of the original. If you need that all images have the specified width/height, you could add some white/black padding on the sides, or convert to .png and use transparency.