Method to batch convert images to same dpi

Hi all


I regularly get sent a batch of a couple of hundred small images of 50-100kb to collate into a pdf - but they are always lots of different dpi's. My pdf maker (Foxit) will cheerfully take them all in, but at their original dpi's, so the pages are a mess. I want to batch convert all of them before I import to one dpi, say 72 dpi, without having to look at them or manually intervene.


Preview can open them all and convert to 72 with a couple of clicks, but there's no 'save all', so I have to manually save all 200 individually. I tried making an automaton action but can't get the online suggestions to work. I tried creating a photoshop droplet, which ought to work but doesn't. I don't want to keep the originals, I just want them all to be 72 dpi!


You wouldn't think something so simple could be this hard, but it is.


Can anyone think of an easy way to do this, please?


Thanks in advance for any ideas.


Tim

MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Jun 6, 2024 5:13 AM

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Jun 6, 2024 3:20 PM in response to TimPollard

So you want to change all of the images to the same pixel dimensions, right? Unless they are all the same size ratio, it can't be done automatically. If you can change them to the same pixel dimensions they will have the same ppi.


However, you can export them out of your Photos library using a custom export size and set the maximum pixel dimension to WXYZ pixels. That way they will all have the same maximum dimension and be close to the same ppi. Landscape will have a width of WXYZ and portrait image will have a height of WXYZ.


They would fit more uniformly in a PDF document.



Jun 6, 2024 3:18 PM in response to TimPollard

You can use dots or pixels interchangeably. It makes no difference. The key word is "inch". Basically it makes as much sense as asking for the weight of a jpg in ounces and pounds.


An image has a fixed number of pixels. My camera produces 24 megapixel images. 6,000 on the long side, 4,000 on the shower side that 6 x 4 gives 24 megapixels. Note that there are no inches/feet/metres involved. It a calculation of the number of pixels in the image.


Now if you go to print, what size paper will I need? That's where the inches come in. At 300dpi the image would be 6k/300 or 20 inches on the long side. At 150 dpi it would be 40 inches on the long side. At 600 dpi it would be 10 inches on the long side. The inches are only relevant in printing. Those figures for you quote for dpi are merely notional in the purely digital world of your computer, where there are no inches.


So, no, most people wouldn't understand you.


https://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html


or


https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-dpi/#:~:text=The%20misconception%20about%20resolution%20in,to%20layout%20on%20the%20web.



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