[HN Gopher] Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System
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       Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System
        
       Author : Amorymeltzer
       Score  : 91 points
       Date   : 2023-02-18 18:44 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | KingLancelot wrote:
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       | daneel_w wrote:
       | I've made use of sips(1) for years to un/bundle application icons
       | for build processes and other things. Great tool, more or less
       | unknown like so many other hidden userland gems in macOS.
        
         | torstenvl wrote:
         | Same. I use sips as part of my build process. The package
         | target depends on the binary target and the icns target, which
         | depends on the iconset target, which uses sips.
        
       | giantrobot wrote:
       | I've found sips very helpful dealing with JPEG 2000 images in
       | places where ImageMagick would not render them correctly.
       | 
       | Another very helpful Mac utility is textutil which will convert
       | text documents between different formats. It uses the same
       | underlying frameworks as TextEdit so it's not a replacement for
       | {Microsoft,Libre}Office but it can spit out an OpenOffice
       | document from an RTF or Word document in a pinch.
        
       | arrakeen wrote:
       | at first i thought this was some sort of wrapper around vips[1]
       | which is extremely powerful, but whose CLI leaves a lot to be
       | desired. even so, i make use of it quite a bit. here's how i'd
       | convert the webps to png:                   parallel vips copy {}
       | {.}.png ::: *.webp
       | 
       | [1] https://www.libvips.org/API/current/using-cli.html
        
       | gouggoug wrote:
       | Is there a place listing all these little known but useful macOS
       | utilities?
        
       | lelandfe wrote:
       | Undermentioned macOS feature: right click an image in Finder,
       | Quick Actions > Convert Image. Lets you change formats, resize,
       | and strip metadata from images, and supports bulk operations too.
        
       | foverzar wrote:
       | I've always used ImageMagick for this kind of stuff.
        
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