Kablamize

(by the author of NQDC)

kablamize is a command-line tool to check tiff image conformance to Ka-blam specifications.

Download Windows installer:

version 1.0Beta 1.648kb (I've tested it on XP and Vista)

To run kablamize, simply open a command prompt, navigate to the directory where your images are located, and type "kablamize". You can also type up the path if that's what you prefer, or create windows shortcuts with different options if you want to get clever.

The program will print any non-conformances. It also creates a log file so you don't have to worry about scrolling.

The following properties are checked:

This is experimental software with no guarantees or warranties. I made it for my own convenience, and this distribution is something I slapped together fairly quickly. By installing this software, you accept that you do so at your own risk. Anyway you shouldn't trust strange software even if I promised it was fail-safe.

Personally I made it largely for the dpi checking, because I've found Photoshop sometimes inadvertently changes it or converts it to dots per centimeter.

There are some optional command line options:

kablamize --help

prints help...

kablamize [--color] [--width=x] [--height=y] [directory to check]

(The [ ] indicate that those options are not required, you don't have to type the [ ]!)

All files must have .tif, .tiff, .TIF or .TIFF as extension

Note: the program doesn't distinguish between page and cover images, so if your pages are black&white and your covers are color, one of them will be reported as wrong, depending on whether you use the --color option


Created in Python, using PIL, py2exe, and Inno setup compiler.


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