stephen schweitzer

Actually... I'm not lazy but I thought it would be quicker for someone (other than me who hasn't touched MAX since 2017) hence the dusty part..

Can someone point me to a patch that can retrieve dimensions and resolution of a file on an older Mac?

Drag and drop from a folder would be sweet!

For undisclosed reasons I'm migrating from High Sierra (10.13.6) to Mojave (10.14.whatever)

In High Sierra I get the dimensions and resolutions in a variety of Finder Views, but I have not found a way to do that in Mojave (yes, I've searched... there are myths about Spotlight... but they are just myths)

Sorry I haven't been active in years, but would appreciate the help.

dusty and lazy:  Mac Finder preview patch to display dimensions and resolution of media files

dusty-and-lazy-mac-finder-preview-patch-to-display-dimsions-and-resolution-of-media-files

Seems more like a macOS issue than a Max issue to me.

https://macbookjournal.com/how-to-see-image-dimensions-in-finder-on-mac/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253646753?sortBy=best

Thanks for the reply... Yeah, with all other OSs it works as expected, but for some reason with Mojave (10.14) the dimension/resolution options are not there. 

This is why I'm going the MAX route. It should be simple enough to drop a folder of images onto a patch and... voilà, extract file name, dimensions, etc.

OK... I'm going to dive in and re-install MAX.

Can someone recommend the object I need that will output the dimensions of a jpeg, png, etc.?

I've tried the documentation, but I can't remember the best search terms to use... jpeg dimensions brings up a lot of jitter objects that don't output dimensions. Maybe there's something with matrix?

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/search/objects?q=jpg%20dimensions&page=2

normally i should know such things, but in fact it is on my own to do list as well.

it is simple for audio (there is an sfinfo object, you only have half a dozen different file formats in question, the length of a buffer object can be variable, and so on), but for still images it seems to be a bit more difficult to programmatically check for specs/header info or measure something about it after you opened it.

there is a chance that max´ way to do it is based on the selected video engine and/or other system components, with the result that you can not solve your 10.14 issue with a max based workaround.

for some formats such as "photoshop" you might be able to use [filein] for a custom solution. 

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/

 , it is not much different from diving into midifiles with filein.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/#50577409_19840

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/imageio/8bim_image_properties

Thanks for the info. I'll look into those links. But yeah... you would think that this is a simple query on the meta-data of the file.  In other versions of Mac OS, the Finder reveals that info... so the info is there, it's just a matter of  how to extract it. I'll post back if I learn something.