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Inpho Photography is Ireland's largest sports photography agency. In recent
years, the press photography business has become almost completely digital
(and with the advent of good professional digital cameras, it will soon be
completely digital).
Inpho uses a number of Macs with 35mm scanners and Photoshop as preliminary input devices. Pictures are scanned, cleaned up, and cropped as necessary. They are then captioned and a MacPerl script is used to submit the new pictures to the library system. The script checks the pictures for correct captioning, etc., and then copies them to a staging directory on a server (a Linux box, where they are further processed with Perl to be actually added to the library). This is not a hugely complex use of MacPerl, but it is critical to Inpho's operations. The MacPerl script replaced an AppleScript which was not able to check the pictures. It's also faster than the AppleScript.
James Meehan |