Ashish's Image Resize Utility Documentation

This program does not accept any parameters from commandline. It simply picks them up from the ‘ImgResz.exe.config’ file. Shown below is a typical configuration file. This file should reside in the same directory as the ‘exe’.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="extension" value="\*.jpg"/>
    <add key="scaleFactor" value="0.3"/>
    <add key="brdrW" value="5"/>
    <add key="errorFile" value="error.log"/>
    <add key="wMarkFontName" value="Calibri"/>
    <add key="wMarkLeftPercent" value="1"/>
    <add key="wMarkText" value="Copyright 2008, Ashish Patil "/>
    <add key="wMarkFontSize" value="10"/>
    <add key="wMarkTopPercent" value="90"/>
    <add key="newFilePrefix" value="resz\_"/>
    <add key="outputFormat" value="jpg"/>
    <add key="dirnamein" value="C:\\Pictures"/>
    <add key="destdirdest" value="D:\\MyGallery\\Resized"/>
    <add key="overwrite" value="true"/>
    <add key="fontargb" value="9fff4334"/>
    <add key="borderargb" value="9fff4334"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

The table below gives details of what each entry in this configuration file does:

extension	Extension of files to be processed. Should in above form i.e *.xxx. Only one extension can be given at a time.
outputFormat	The format in which processed images should be saved. Possible value is one of following: jpg bmp png or gif
dirnamein	Fully qualified input directory path
destdirdest	Fully qualified output directory path
scaleFactor	Scale factor of the image. Value is always > 0.00 and <=>
overwrite	Flag that determines if the program should overwrite files in output directory. The default value is false.
brdrW	The width (in px) of border to be applied to the image on each side.
borderargb	Color of the border. The value is in form of ARGB (A value is currently ignored )
errorFile	Error file to which errors and exceptions are written to. If file exists the data is appended else new file is created.
wMarkFontName	Font used to render the watermark.
wMarkFontSize	Font size used to render the watermark.
wMarkLeft	Distance of the watermark from right border of the image
wMarkTop	Distance of the watermark from top border of the image
wMarkText	Text to be displayed as watermark.
newFilePrefix	Prefix for resized files.
overwrite	If value is 'true' then the program overwrites files in output directory. Set this to 'false' if you don't want the program to overwrite files.
fontargb	Color used for the watermark font. The value is in form of ARGB.