Short:    Convert pictures using SViewII and Dopus
Author:   wayne@zahadum.u-net.com (Wayne Newark)
Uploader: wayne@zahadum.u-net.com (Wayne Newark)
Type:     biz/dopus

$VER: SVConvert.dopus5 1.2 (17.08.99)

Note: It will only work with a registered version of SViewNG/SViewII.

Minor update: Changed my Email address and added ability to use either German
              or English in requestors (thanks to Oliver Molz for the translations).


Description:

Whilst using DOpus Magellan have you ever required the need to convert a large
number of picture files from one format to another.

This script uses SViewII, but could be changed to use SViewNG, to perform the
necessary file conversions. As I wrote this script I decided to use it as an
exercise in the use of multiple source and destination listers. Therefore
SVConvert.dopus5 will process all the selected picture files from all the source
listers it finds, converting them and then saving the results into all the
destination listers.

As part of the conversion process the files are renamed. It does this by
stripping off all text after the last '.' and appending an appropriate suffix.

Example: Converting to PNG   - Pic1.iff becomes Pic1.PNG
         Converting to JPEG  - Pic2.gif becomes Pic2.JPG


Installation:

Copy SVConvert.dopus5 to DOpus5:Arexx/
     SViewII.buttons and SViewII.menu to DOpus5:Buttons/

Before using you will have to amend the script giving it the location of
SViewNG/SViewII and setting up the appropriate ARexx port name.


Usage:

    ARexx     DOpus5:ARexx/SVConvert.dopus5 {Qp} format*

* At present this is limited to: JPEG, BMP, PNG, DEEP, PCX, ILBM,
                                 PBM, RGFX, TIFF and SVG.

Read the Superview-Library.guide for further information on graphic formats
supported by SViewNG/SViewII.

Both a button bank (SViewII.buttons) and Start Menu (SViewII.menu) have been
supplied as an examples on how to use it.


Distribution:

Freeware.  Feel free to email me if you have any suggestions for improvements or
           you find an error.

I give permission for the script to be put onto magazine cover-discs, software
compilation discs, the DOpus Plus CD or the SView CD, as long as the text files
in the archive accompanies it.


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
    1160     273 76.4% 01-Apr-99 20:17:26  SViewII.buttons
    2254    1138 49.5% 17-Aug-99 20:27:48  svconvert.readme
   15424    4275 72.2% 21-Aug-99 12:12:32  SVConvert.dopus5
    3067    1233 59.7% 21-Aug-99 12:21:18  svconvert.history
    2346     382 83.7% 21-Aug-99 12:49:38  SViewII.menu
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
   24251    7301 69.8% 22-Aug-99 22:01:26   5 files