FuzzyIdeas/Clop v2.6.0

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Side-by-side comparison

You can now compare images, videos and PDFs side by side to see the difference between the original and the optimised version.

• right click on the thumbnail and click Compare
• or hover the thumbnail and press Cmd-D

video demo

Optimised file location

There is now a way to set where the optimised files will be placed:

• Temporary folder: they will be placed in the system temp folder that gets cleaned up periodically by the system
• In-place (replace original): the default, moves the original file into Clop's backup folder and replaces it with the optimised file
• Same folder (as original): places the optimised file alongside the original, renaming it based on the configured template
• Specific folder: places the optimised file in a specific path anywhere on disk, configured with a template

video demo

Flexible template paths for the --output CLI

When using commands like clop optimise --output <some path>, the output path now uses the new templating engine.

To understand this better, here are some examples when resizing the PNG files on Desktop using something like:

# the command is being run from ~/Documents/
~/Documents ❯ clop crop --size 1600x900 --output <template> ~/Desktop/screenshots/*.png

... where <template> can be:

• resized_to_%z -> path relative to current dir, places files in ~/Documents/resized_to_1600x900/
• ~/Pictures/twitter/%f_%z.%e -> absolute path, files will get paths like ~/Pictures/twitter/shot_1600x900.png
• %P/../twitter/ -> path relative to image dir, places files in ~/Desktop/twitter/

Features

• Use the new Jpegli perceptive encoder from Google for even smaller JPEG images
• Update ffmpeg to version 7.0 for better video encoding
• Allow configuring the location where Clop stores temporary files and backups and when to clean up files
• Allow disabling floating results UI
• The global Ctrl-Shift-P hotkey can now toggle between:
  • Running: Clop is listening to clipboard and file events
  • Paused: Clop is paused for the next clipboard/file event and will resume automatically
  • Stopped: All automatic optimisations are stopped until manually resumed by user

Improvements

• Add --adaptive-optimisation and --no-adaptive-optimisation options to CLI commands that can act on images
• Speed up PNG optimisation by using pngquant's --speed 3 option
• Improve EXIF metadata handling when optimising images and videos
• Detect files that are in progress of being created/modified and wait for the operation to settle before optimising

Fixes

• Fix --downscale-factor parsing on clop optimise CLI
• Fix automation not triggering shortcuts for videos and PDFs
• Fix: if a previously optimised file was replaced with a new file, an old backup was being used for optimisations instead of the new file
• Fix creation/modification date not being preserved for videos