Applescript to resize images by BOTH length and width?

Are you looking to crop to those dimensions or to resize to those dimensions?

Your request is a little unusual, which may be part of your problem.

The issue is that, usually, when you resize an image you want to scale it proportionally to maintain the same aspect ratio. Otherwise you end up distorting the image in one direction.

For example, if your image is, say 250 x 84px and you just double the height to get 166px, the image will distort and probably not look like what you wanted.

So what you want is probably a combination of scale, crop and/or pad. Scale proportionally increases or decreases the image's dimensions. crop trims an image to a certain size, and pad expands an image's boundaries to fill the space. Anything more than that requires additional thought as to what you want the image to look like.

Have a look at Image Events the font end to the terminal command sips. I believe it should do what you are looking to do but as Camelot pointed out (and as you noted in your original post) the image will be distorted.

Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano The sips command that might do what you need to do is resample (-z) which does not appear to be in the IMage Events dictonary! So you'll need to drop into the shell for this, assuming resample does what you are looking for.

I know that there may be some slight distortion, but "close enough" is good enough for what I'm using it for. Definitely don't need perfection!

Then it sounds like you need a combination of scale and crop - scale the image to the minimum size required (either 250 or 166, depending on its original size), followed by a crop to trim the other dimension to fit.

For example, if the original image is 260 x 250 you could scale it down to 250px wide (a .833 factor, which would end up with an image of 250 x 208), then crop the resulting image to 250 x 166.