Gauthier 7 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Hello, I often take screenshots on my Mac that I directly copy within Evernote. Nevertheless, the resolution and the size of these screenshots is bigger than what I need. The size could be lower, and the quality the same. Is there a way to optimize the picture size, when I copy one into Evernote ? I know I can change the size in another software before importing it into Evernote, but it takes ages to do it over and over again. (I'm a Premium member, but this is annoying when I want to export what I saved into Evernote later on. For example, when I export a screenshot to Anki that I previously saved into Evernote, the size is way too big) Thank you for your ideas Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted August 10, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 10, 2016 19 minutes ago, Gauthier said: Hello, I often take screenshots on my Mac that I directly copy within Evernote. Nevertheless, the resolution and the size of these screenshots is bigger than what I need. The size could be lower, and the quality the same. Is there a way to optimize the picture size, when I copy one into Evernote ? I know I can change the size in another software before importing it into Evernote, but it takes ages to do it over and over again. (I'm a Premium member, but this is annoying when I want to export what I saved into Evernote later on. For example, when I export a screenshot to Anki that I previously saved into Evernote, the size is way too big) Thank you for your ideas Sorry, resizing pictures is not an EN feature You have to use third party software. You might try looking at scripting the process to make it easier. Link to comment
Gauthier 7 Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Hi, thanks for your answer. I don't know anything about scripting, do you have a guide or something where I could start ? How can I use this ? (I imagine this as something that would perform all the steps for me automatically) I'm a bit surprised that Evernote does not propose this option tough, since I guess this would "free" some bandwidth on their servers. Link to comment
Gauthier 7 Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 I found this http://lifehacker.com/5962420/batch-resize-images-quickly-in-the-os-x-terminal that gives me a command that I could put in the Terminal of OS X, in order to resize pictures. Nevertheless I have no idea of how I can automate this for every screenshot I take. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted August 10, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Gauthier said: Hi, thanks for your answer. I don't know anything about scripting, do you have a guide or something where I could start ? How can I use this ? (I imagine this as something that would perform all the steps for me automatically) I'm a bit surprised that Evernote does not propose this option tough, since I guess this would "free" some bandwidth on their servers. I'll get back to you on this; I have to think about how to actually do it. The problem with doing this within Evernote is that when you add the picture, it gets syncd Then you resize the picture, and it gets syncd again. You're using up your transmission allowance. Link to comment
Gauthier 7 Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Indeed. Thanks if you can help. Something that could be useful: thanks to Dropbox, a JPEG file is automatically created every time i take a screenshot. If a script could, let's say, resize the last file within my screenshot folder, then copy it to my clipboard, I guess it could work. I could then just paste the screenshot I just took within Evernote. But again, I don't know how scripting works, and this sounds like some kind of astonishing dark magic for me right now. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted August 11, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 11, 2016 11 hours ago, Gauthier said: I don't know anything about scripting, do you have a guide or something where I could start ? How can I use this ? (I imagine this as something that would perform all the steps for me automatically) Here's what I came up with, a script to resize your picture It requires the filepath be stored in the clipboard (I believe your Dropbox interface does this) I didn't address copying into the clipboard, but I believe this would require adding a step to use application Preview or Finder tell application "Image Events" Untitled.scpt set thisImage to "" set imagePath to the clipboard set thisImage to open imagePath scale thisImage to size 1080 save thisImage in imagePath close thisImage end tell Link to comment
Gauthier 7 Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 On 11-8-2016 at 6:29 AM, DTLow said: Here's what I came up with, a script to resize your picture It requires the filepath be stored in the clipboard (I believe your Dropbox interface does this) I didn't address copying into the clipboard, but I believe this would require adding a step to use application Preview or Finder tell application "Image Events" Untitled.scpt set thisImage to "" set imagePath to the clipboard set thisImage to open imagePath scale thisImage to size 1080 save thisImage in imagePath close thisImage end tell Thanks for trying to help here. Nevertheless I've never used a script before, so when I see your answer, I have absolutely no idea how to use this thing. I guess I need to read webpages about how scripting works, but I have no idea where to start. Link to comment
Yu K 0 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I bet you're using retina screen. I have the same problem and it's really annoying. I don't know if this keeps happening in the newest version. But version 6.7.1 works just fine. I'm unwilling to update to newer version now, because of this issue. If this issue has been fixed, please let me know. Link to comment
javalife 12 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I can confirm the problem. So far, this is the most annoying problem for me since I paste a lot of images. I am looking for any 3rd party solution to automatically resizing pasted images correctly. Link to comment
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