Resizing images to a scale

Question

hi all,
i have a bit of an annoying issue where i would like to print raster (image) drawings out to some /scale/.
a good example would be a set of elevations and a plan that was scanned from a book but are basically /each/ in my computer as individual files at unknown scales.
so i would like to
1. RESIZE these drawings so they are all at the same scale and then
2. i would like to resize them again so that i can print them to PDF (or whatever) and send them to a printer to have them print out at something like 1/8" = 1'-0".
i have adobe photoshop suite of tools on the mac but posting to adobe forums has not yielded results.
is there some slick mac program that will do this??
if not, which mac development team do i explain this need so they can implement it?
is there a good forum to post this question to?
THANKS

Answer 1

The OP's last post was from 2 years ago, so I wouldn't expect him/her to reply :-)
However, if the problem is that you want to get notified while the frame is resizing, and not just after it has been resized, you can do this by setting the DynamicLayout property in java.awt.Toolkit to true, like this small test program demonstrates:
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ComponentAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
public class ResizeTest extends JFrame {
    public ResizeTest() {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JLabel lbl = new JLabel("Label");
        getContentPane().add(lbl);
        pack();
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        lbl.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
            public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
                // Print to the console everytime the label is resized:
                System.out.println("componentResized");
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Set DynamicLayout to true:
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().setDynamicLayout(true);
        new ResizeTest().setVisible(true);
}Note this sentence from the javadocs for the setDynamicLayout method though:
"Note that this feature is not supported on all platforms, and conversely, that this feature cannot be turned off on some platforms."