Rotating an image

arobin4 · Post by **arobin4** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:18 am

Hi Forum:

I am look for a way to rotate an image, 'X' degrees; where 'X' is any variable number between 0-360. I could not find a direct property for this. Any ideas on how it can be accomplished?

Thanks

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:33 pm

IMHO the best way to manipulate images with MacroScheduler is to automate the command line mode of ImageMagick. A very simple script to rotate an image by a defined number of degrees (221 in the example) and and save to a new file would be:

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Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=0
Let>rot=221
Run program>c:\imag\convert.exe -rotate %rot% c:\stuff\rottest.gif c:\stuff\rottest%rot%.gif

Image rotation is a complex subject and ImageMagick has other features that can help with issues like distortion (jaggies), and how to handle the blank spaces that result when an image is rotated by a non multiple of 90 degrees - but an imagemagick/graphics forum would be the place for that discussion.

arobin4 · Post by **arobin4** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:40 am

Me_again,
Thanks for telling me about ImageMagick. Question: Can the function of rotating an image be compiled into standalone code along with the macro script? My objective is to compile the script to run on machines without ImageMagick and Macro Scheduler locally installed.

Thanks again.

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:33 am

No, you can't do that.

arobin4 · Post by **arobin4** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:58 am

Okay thanks for the response Me_again.

mileswilliams · Post by **mileswilliams** » Wed May 02, 2012 10:01 pm

Instead of distributing a copy of imagemagik or whatever it is called, why not give everyone a copy of a macro that ftps the file to a server where you have the app, a macro there will check the directory and rotate the image and send it back. Job done. None of that is very hard either if you break it down and hammer the help files

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:29 pm

It may be possible to do it completely in macroscheduler as the OP wanted. Apparently vbscript can rotate images, and macroscheduler includes vbscript.

arobin4 · Post by **arobin4** » Thu May 10, 2012 2:04 am

Thanks Me_again, I will try this out.

Rotating an image

Rotating an image

I think you could, but...