Automator: duplicate OR copy in place

Question

I am trying to build the following services:

1. Change type of image, result in the same folder (image.jpg => image.jpg + image.png)
2. Change size of image, result in the same folder (image.jpg => image.jpg + image-800x600.jpg)

I am stuck on part where the original image is duplicated in the same folder, under a different name (the copy finder item workflow requires a hard coded destination or other option I am not familiar with).

Maybe I could use a shell script to perform the duplicating part. I know how to get the file paths passed to the run shell script workflow, but I can't figure out how to send valid paths out to the next task (change type or resize).

MAC OS version is Mountain lion 10.8.2.

Answer 1

You can duplicate the files before you scale them:

on run {input}
    set newFiles to {}
    repeat with aFile in input
        tell application "Finder" to set myFile to duplicate aFile
        set end of newFiles to myFile as alias
    end repeat
    delay 1
    return newFiles
end run

You can add another AppleScript at the end to deal with the files names:

on run {input}
    repeat with myFile in input
        tell application "System Events" to set oldName to myFile's name
        set newName to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of oldName & " | sed -E 's/ ?copy ?[0-9?]*//'"
        tell application "System Events" to set myFile's name to newName
    end repeat
end run