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Factories Inspector

The Factories Inspector lets you edit properties for the current image's factories.

Factory Properties:

The Build Factories on Save checkbox lets you tell Opacity to build all of the factories in your image whenever you save it.

The Build All buttons builds all of the factories in your image and the Build button just builds a given factory.

The Build popup lets you choose how you want to build the image. File just saves the image as a file, and the other options let you send the image to a specific application or script to be used. You can add additional scripts and applications (including aliases) by putting them in the Library/Application Support/Opacity/Builders folder in your home folder. Applications, AppleScripts, Automator Workflows, and Command Line tools are all supported.

The Path field lets you set where your image is built. Click the Choose button to choose a path to build to. If the Relative checkbox is set, then the location of the build destination is calculated relative to your image file's location.

The From field lets you choose which email address to send a Mail build from.

The To field lets you enter an address to send a Mail build image to.

The Account field lets you choose which instant message account to send an iChat or Adium build from.

The Buddy field lets you enter the buddy to send an iChat or Adium build image to.

The Favorite field lets you choose which Favorite in Transmit to upload your built image to.

The Shortcut field lets you choose which Shortcut in Fetch to upload your built image to.

The Arguments field lets you add arguments that will be passed to the Builder used by the factory.

The Format popup lets you choose what file format to build your image as.

The Background color well lets you choose a color to be placed behind images that don't support transparency.

The Quality slider lets you choose how high quality you want to build your image (lower quality gives smaller file sizes but worse looking images).

The Progressive checkbox lets you set whether the image is built as a progressive JPEG. This allows images to be shown online where they can be seen before they are fully downloaded.

The Resolution popup lets you choose which resolution of the image to build for image formats that don't support multiple resolutions. You can also choose to build All Resolutions.

The Snapshot popup lets you choose which snapshot to use when building the factory. You can choose None to use the current state of the image or All Snapshots to export a set of images in each of the snapshots' states.

The Frame popup lets you choose which frame to build for image formats that don't support multiple frames. You can also choose to build All Frames.

The Group popup lets you choose how to group the set of images that are built (when All Resolutions and/or All Frames are being built). You can build a set of image files, a Zip of images, or a preview image of all of the images.

The Line Color color well lets you set the color for the lines to protect your image from being copied in a Preview of All Frames.

The Columns field lets you set how many columns of images to show when making a Preview of All Frames.

The Animate popup lets you choose whether to build a GIF image as an animation and if so, how often to repeat the animation.

The Slice checkbox lets you choose to only build a slice from your image. If it is enabled you can edit the position and size of the slice.

You can click the disclosure triangle beside any factory to minimize it to save space.

Note: Factories can only be saved in Opacity image files

Related Topics

Builders

Exporting with Factories

Snapshots