ImageInfo Question

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#1

I purchased ImageInfo for OS X and think it is pretty cool, but I have a question for anyone who is familiar with it. When I get the image color mode I want the data to be a string, but anytime I try to coerce it to a string it turns out as <<constant ****cmyk>>. Occasionally it will work and return just CMYK like I want. Is there a way that I can get the results I want more consistantly?

Thanks,
Dave

#2

What type of result is being returned for color mode? If it’s a record or list, you might need to jump through some hoops to coerce/convert it to a string.

#3

From the Image Info dictionary
image color mode bitmap/grayscale/indexed/duotone/multichannel/YCbCr/Lab/RGB/CMYK [r/o]

Thanks,
Dave

#4

I just did a couple of tests and this worked for me for a couple of different modes.

tell application "Image Info"
	set theMode to image color mode of (Image Info for alias "path:to:some:file")
	set theMode to theMode as text
end tell

I don’t work with images much so I’m not familiar with many aspects of them. Is it possible that some images can have more than one color mode?

#5

I tried your sample code…

and still got the same results…<<constant ****cmyk>>

No, an image would be one of the items listed in the dictionary. I guess I’ll just have to build in some testing of the results.

Thanks,
Dave

#6

What happens if you take the coercion out of the Image Info tell block? This would take it out of Image Info’s namespace where, hopefully, it isn’t viewed as a constant.

tell application "Image Info" 
   set theMode to image color mode of (Image Info for alias "path:to:some:file") 
end tell 

set theMode to theMode as text