If you could add it we would be very happy!

Was wondering if it's possible to add a simple image crop option into program functionality?

With regards.

Have you tried translate.exe from the SBSH's wiki ? (link 2 posts above)

You'll see that mistakes or error are simply not possible anymore with such a tool... You write translated text into a field, and all the syntax and original text is 'read only'... That's why i have suggested this tool ;)

Well, it's just a suggestion :)

A quick sample:

#: \controllers\contacts_controller.php:42
#: \views\elements\admin\navigation.ctp:82;84
msgid "Contacts"
msgstr "Contacte"


The translator will break things if they delete or translate anything except the string in msgstr.
Using specialized programs is a safer approach.
XML files suffer from the same syntax issues. I don't see any reason to use XHL instead of ini or gettext. With XML the files will only get bigger unnecessarily due to the XML syntax.

So, I would prefer gettext, but not all translators will know how to create them because not all of them do this on a regular basis.

I've posted a suggestion onto the localization thread...

Definitively good if implemented, the use of a program and XML file to perform translation ;)

To read a little more about translator tool...
http://wiki.sbsh.net/index.php/PocketWeather_Translation

A sample file (in fact, PocketWeather translation) is provided, so you can see if it fits your needs.

The great advantage is that you can modify the XML file, even without translator.exe !

as translator i can only suggest one thing: please chose such way where is possibility to have plain text for translators. doesn't matter if after translation you will have to compile it or transform to anything you like, but please allow translating in plain text form. this will help a lot to speed up translation using CAT software and handling updates in future. i really don't like to work with closed formats where you have to use specialized tool for translation or resource hacker to edit dll or exe files, which are obsolete after next update and you have to do your job from scratch again.

to avoid problems with encoding IMO UTF-8 should be considered as minimum.

If I put a PNG image of 16 colours into RIOT, let RIOT show that it is 16 colours, not True Colour or 256 colours. Irfanview shows the number of colours.

Let RIOT auto-count colours like Irfanview.

1. I'm trying it with a gimp sample image

2. RIOT is not even "grayed out" under the FILE> location, RIOT is not even there

It seems that my gimp install does not query plugins when re-starting, even though it is a fresh install

Is there a way to "trigger" a re-query of all plugins?

Then, installed RIOT GIMP plugin:

http://download.criosweb.ro/download.php?sid=R-dll

The 3 RIOT files can be found here in the GIMP install:

C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins

FreeImage.dll, Riot.dll, and Riot.exe

However, when I re-start GIMP, it does not show RIOT under the FILE > location

How do I enable RIOT ?

Thanks

If you need me to translate this soft, please drop me a mail at Mynickname@netcourrier.com (where Mynickname is... My nickname onto this forum !... This to avoid spam onto my mailbox, leaving my mail address over a public url... ;) ), i've performed French translations by the past, especially into Windows Mobile's world...

SBSH : Pocket Breeze, Pocket weather, Phone weaver, Ilauncher, GoNews Touch, and other Android soft
CryptoCard (both PC and WM)
SkTools
BattClock

This to mention that i'm a little experienced into translate... ;)

Just for my interest: Don't you think that posterization is able to improve RLE-compression compared to quantization?

Anyway I'm missing a function yet:
Like explained in http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/ the posterize option in photoshop is very useful to decrease filesizes of images - specially png.

Now my first question: Does it work the same like color quantization? Because as far as I understand it posterize looks for regions in the image with almost the same color. Does the already implemented color quantization the same? Or does it only tries to find the best 256 colors (for example) for the whole image?

If it doesn't do the same thing it would be great if such an option could be implemented.
If it already does the same thing I'd really like an option to be reduce colors of an image and keeping alpha transpaprency. So I'd like to be able to reduce the colors but to save the image as "True Image" png. That would be great for us webdesigners which sometimes need alpha transparency on photos.

Example: http://www.edleschnittchen.ch/images/home_right.png
With RIOT I couldn't optimize the raw image a lot without losing the alpha transparency. Naturally "Optimal 256 Color Palette" was better but the border didn't look good.
The only way to really improve filesize was to use posterize from photoshop, save it and optimize it with RIOT afterwards by using PNGout and save it as "True Image". This kept the image quality and improved file size a lot.

So for photos with transparency I always have to make these two steps. If this could be implement it directly in RIOT this would be perfect! :)

Thanks and sorry for the long message! :)
Janis

Nice ! With a plug-in i can have this tool ! I would like to thank you for that handy plug, witch makes my life easier !
Typical use of it :
Reduce 10Mpx pics onto 1024*768 to publish them onto my Facebook album
Reduce compression size of JPEG between 100% (my camera) and 90% (or 80%) for my disk space...

Two suggestions for improving this tool :

- Foreign languages : I've seen onto this board that you may make this for further version : I'm willing to help for the French version, that would be my 'donation' for using a such handy tool... Let me know if i can help... As i see you're from Romania, you should understand that foreign people will love a tool in their native language ! ;)

- JPEG % of compression instead of size : I would like, in batch conversions, use another parameter to batch-treat my files : Instead (or maybe added !) of "Filesize threshold in KB", i would like to have "compression in %" (ex : JPEG with 10% of compression, or 90% as indicated by TheGimp).
If i use the "filesize" filter, set (of eg) to 1.5Mb : Images with 4Mb will be shinked (nice !) but images in the same folder with 1.2Mb will be raised up to 1.5Mb (and this is not good for my valuable space onto my disk ! :) )

I just found this website and had a try with version 0.4.6 . RIOT looks very capable, except for one missing parameter when resampling is done, namely Gamma. When the resampling is not executed at gamma 1.0 then there may be issues such as described at:
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

It would be great if that could be added to an otherwise already very capable image converter.

Cheers,
Bart

Thanks for such a neat piece of software.
I really like RIOT!

I have been looking for a way to batch resample/optimize JPG images based on the quality/compression level of the images.

I want to do this so that I could select only those images which has less compression (let’s say 80-100%) and batch process them to lower compression level (say 75%) to save hard disk space.

I have loads of reference images with various compression level. If I apply compression to all the images then the ones with already low compression get reprocessed resulting really lower quality images and sometime the image size increases also!

Is it possible to add this kind of feature in RIOT?
This kind of option would be truly great and helpful to many users.