
To automate JPEGmini we need to add Terminal.app (or iTerm.app etc) to the 'support for assistive devices' whitelist. You may be presented with the following message the first time you run Gulp Imageoptim with the jpegmini flag set to true: Enabling JPEGmini and support for assistive devices To use JPEGmini you will need to purchase it. We are using ImageOptim-CLI (ImageOptim and ImageAlpha) without JPEGmini. Yes, however, please note that JPEGmini is a paid-for product. Set to false to disable optimize summary in console.ĭefault: 100 FAQS Does Gulp-ImageOptim use JPEGmini? To enable JPEGmini support, set the option to true Optimize images using ImageOptim-CLI Options jpegmini Var imageOptim = require( 'gulp-imageoptim') So why ImageOptim-CLI? My personal experience and current benchmarks suggest that ImageOptim and ImageAlpha currently outperform alternatives over lossless and lossy optimizations.
#IMAGEOPTIM CLI WINDOWS#
Unfortunately currently there is no support for Windows and Linux. Please note this plugin uses ImageOptim-CLI. I figured that would not take that much time.Gulp plugin to optimize images using ImageOptim and JPEGmini. I quit the program and tried again with 1 tiny file that was only 3kb. I quit the program and tried again with 2 files-same thing. I did not get the second message and the work was not done. I get the the notification that says this could take some time and then. I have a similar experience to the previous poster of the set-up not working on my computer. (I do not have the ImageOptim-CLI libraries installed like the previous poster.)
#IMAGEOPTIM CLI FOR MAC#
I uploaded the work file for mac mavericks and downloaded imagealpha and imageoptim (I have no programming experience but thought I would give this a try.)
#IMAGEOPTIM CLI UPGRADE#
I searched online and found this site/post and downloaded Alfred 2 and bought the power pack upgrade I just found out about ImageAlpha and liked the compression but not the time as I have lots of files to compress.
#IMAGEOPTIM CLI HOW TO#
I'll consider adding a check in the future to prevent parallel process from happening, but I'm affraid this could add other complications, as in how to clear the processing flag if optimization process is interrumpted earlier.įor OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Download the alfred-image-optim-workflow.alfredworkflow and import to Alfred 2.įor Previous OS X Versions, Download the alfred-image-optim-workflow.alfredworkflow and import to Alfred 2. Tecnically you could if the batch already jumped to the next app (from JPEGmini to ImageOptim for example), but it's looking for trouble. You shouldn't run optimizations in parallel. When the optimization is completed, you'll see another notification, indicating the original Kilobytes, the current Kilobytes, total savings and savings percent. Depending on the number and size of images, it could take a while.ģ. The work is done partially with AppleScript, so even if it's happening in the background, the apps are actually laoded and you can focus on them to check the status. You'll see a notification indicating the number of files to process. saving files in Alfred's file buffer, and then ⌘ → to action buffered files.Ģ.browsing or finding files in Alfred, and triggering actions for the file.select one or multiple files/folder in finder and press ⌘ alt \.Note that any Alfred's way of selecting files work, such us: find or select one or more images or folders, show the file actions in Alfred, and select "Optimize Images". Go to Preferences, Security and Privacy, Privacy tab, click the lock to allow changes, and drag the Alfred 2 app into the list.ġ. If using JPEGmini, you need to add Alfred 2 to the allowed apps in the accesibility list.JPEGmini, optional but recommended, installed in /Applications folder.ImageAlpha, installed in /Applications folder.ImageOptim, installed in /Applications folder.That being said, JPEGmini does way better job and it's recommended. A quality of 75 is usually pretty safe and it still has a way smaller size and usual JPEGs saved from Photoshop without optimization. To do this, I'm also bundling ImageMagik's mogrify and identify. My own addition to this image processing is that if JPEGmini is unavailable, it uses ImageMagik's mogrify to compress JPEGs to quality 75, if they're actually higher than 75. Together they shrink images like a beast. It uses the open source ImageAlpha and ImageOptim apps, and the JPEGmini app, which is not free, but highly recommended. Mason's library uses three image optimization applications to automate optimization of JPEGs and PNGs. This is a wrapper Alfred workflow around the great ImageOptim-CLI library from Jamie Mason.
