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The Jackalope · Apr 24, 2003, 08:44 PM

Ok, recently I found a series of anatomy books* that I have been looking for online. These have been out of print for decades, so I grabbed every last jpg scanned page they had. Now, I want to print them.

Is there some way I can print the whole shebang without having to open each image one at a time and hitting the ol' print key combo? I've never had to batch-print images before. Any help would be appreciated.

*No, not porn you bastards!

DeathMan · Apr 24, 2003, 09:10 PM

first guess would be drag them all into the print center, and see what happens. (maybe like try 3 or 4 at first)

second guess would be to learn a little bit of applescript, and write a little loop where you go through a directory and print all of them.

third would be to use photoshop, you can make actions and turn them into droplets.

By the way, I've got a life drawing class next semester, are these jpgs still available? could you make them available?

Detrius · Apr 24, 2003, 09:12 PM

Open the print center. Select all of your jpegs and drop them on the printer you want to use. You could also try batch printing from iPhoto.

Sarc · Apr 24, 2003, 09:15 PM

open Preview and drag them all to it's Dock icon.
Then print
(this is asuming you have 10.2)

Sarah31 · Apr 24, 2003, 10:14 PM

lpr *.jpg

while in the directory with all the pictures should do the trick.

Sarc · Apr 24, 2003, 10:24 PM

Originally posted by Sarah31:
lpr *.jpg

while in the directory with all the pictures should do the trick.

neat !
thx for the tip
reminder ... and this to the thread of "things you never knew you could with Mac OS X"

DeathMan · Apr 25, 2003, 12:29 AM

Originally posted by Sarah31:
lpr *.jpg

while in the directory with all the pictures should do the trick.

Sarah, queen of the command line. I bow my head in humility.

Sometimes the command line is the easiest way to do it. I'm glad we have it now. I never understood why people use the dos command, but now I can understand that its good for some tasks. Though bash and tcsh are way cooler than stupid dos. IM(H)O.

The Jackalope · Apr 25, 2003, 12:43 AM

Dragging into print center didn't work...tried that before (sorry, I should have mentioned that).

Ok... so the command line thing makes me curious. I open the terminal and type "lpr*.jpg" EXACTLY? Or is the "*" the name of the various jpgs that I have to type in manually?

Total n00b when it comes to the Terminal.

lookmark · Apr 25, 2003, 12:50 AM

Originally posted by The Jackalope:
Ok... so the command line thing makes me curious. I open the terminal and type "lpr*.jpg" EXACTLY? Or is the "*" the name of the various jpgs that I have to type in manually?

Total n00b when it comes to the Terminal.

The * character is called a wildcard. So lpr *.jpg means "print ANYTHING.jpg" (in that directory). Very powerful.

Make sure you type the command exactly right, spaces and all.

Also, don't forget you have to navigate to the directory first.

some simple navigation commands:
cd is change directory
ls is list contents of directory
cd .. will move you back one level in the hierachy
man command will give you detailed info about the command
pressing tab will auto-complete (very useful)

You can also just drag the folder you want to go into into the Terminal window (very cool). e.g. Type cd then space bar, then drag the folder into the window, then press return. Boom -- you're there.

Try a google search, there's dozens of good tutorials on using simple UNIX commands in Terminal. Have fun!

DeathMan · Apr 25, 2003, 01:00 AM

You can also go to macosxhints.com for lots of tips and tricks, a lot of which involve the terminal, and all the nice little things that you can access through it.

jayg · Apr 25, 2003, 01:06 AM

This is the first time I noticed that OS X doesn't let you print from the Finder. Another advantage of 9 where you could just select all the files and select print.

adamberti · Apr 25, 2003, 01:31 AM

Originally posted by lookmark:

You can also just drag the folder you want to go into into the Terminal window (very cool). e.g. Type cd then space bar, then drag the folder into the window, then press return. Boom -- you're there.

Wow, that is the coolest thing I've learned it a while, thanks!!

spiney · Apr 25, 2003, 05:48 AM

Graphicconverter will also batch print folders of pictures.

RevEvs · Apr 25, 2003, 06:15 AM

Th only problem with dragging the items onto the print centre is that you dont get any options before printing (ie colour, quality etc)

revs

beb · Apr 25, 2003, 09:05 AM

iPhoto sounds like the best solution here. Drag the folder into iPhoto to create a photolist. And select print and choose the options you want.

iPhoto is slow, but it works.

The Jackalope · Apr 25, 2003, 09:46 AM

Ok, GraphicConverter is doing the job as we speak. I couldn't get the Terminal to do it, but actualy, this has really made me curious on how the terminal works. Thanks to Sarah and Lookmark for getting me interested in starting to learn about UNIX command line...it seems very usefull in toodling around...

Also, thanks to Spiney for the GraphicConverter hint, Deathman for the link on those hints, and everyone else for jumping in on this!

Westfoto · Apr 25, 2003, 10:22 AM

[quote]Originally posted by The Jackalope:
[b]Ok, recently I found a series of anatomy books* that I have been looking for online. These have been out of print for decades, so I grabbed every last jpg scanned page they had. Now, I want to print them.

Is there some way I can print the whole shebang without having to open each image one at a time and hitting the ol' print key combo? I've never had to batch-print images before. Any help would be appreciated.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF COPYRIGHT??
I see violations all over this.
I WOULD BE CARFULL DOING THIS!

You might want to look for this in a used bookseller online before doing this.

Macint_sh · Apr 25, 2003, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by The Jackalope:
Ok, recently I found a series of anatomy books* that I have been looking for online. These have been out of print for decades, so I grabbed every last jpg scanned page they had.

Not to get off topic, but what is the URL?

ShadowKatana · Apr 25, 2003, 12:41 PM

I'd be interested to know too! E-mail me.

tooki · Apr 25, 2003, 12:59 PM

If the book has been out of print for "decades," it's unlikely that the copyrights on it have been renewed, and if they have, it's unlikely they'd be enforced.

tooki

lookmark · Apr 25, 2003, 04:30 PM

I'd be curious to know, too.

Sarah31 · Apr 25, 2003, 05:19 PM

while technically this would be infringing on the copyright it is very unlikely charges would ever be brought against the individual posting those pages. this is what would be called grey area as reproducing the pages is illegal but no profit is being gained.it is a money losing venture on the part of the one that would press charges. especially since the books are no longer in print. no money lost really by any one and if the author did want financial reimbersment the individual posting the pages would not likely have even posted them.

very grey area to me.