Acorn Is Scriptable!

I oscillate between Acorn and Pixelmator on the Mac - its great to have two competent alternatives to Photoshop. Pixelmator is my current fav on the iPad Pro (there’s nothing like using it’s object removal with the Apple Pencil). However, today Acorn has me on the Mac because it is scriptable. Whipped up this little script to generate images for Script Debugger 6 release notes:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

on downsampleImage(theFile)
	local destFolderHFSPath
	
	tell application "Finder"
		set destFolderHFSPath to get folder "Web" of desktop as string
	end tell
	
	tell application "Acorn"
		tell (open theFile)
			local imageName, imageWidth, imageHeight
			
			set {imageName, imageHeight, imageWidth} to {name, height, width}
			trim
			
			--	Create 1x down sampled image
			web export width (imageWidth * 0.328) height (imageHeight * 0.328) as PNG in file (destFolderHFSPath & imageName & ".png")
			--	Create 2x down sampled image
			web export width (imageWidth * 0.65) height (imageHeight * 0.65) as PNG in file (destFolderHFSPath & imageName & "@2x.png")
			
			close saving no
		end tell
	end tell
end downsampleImage

on open theFiles
	repeat with aFile in theFiles
		downsampleImage(contents of aFile)
	end repeat
end open

No fuss, it just worked.