I really don't understand much about gimp batch mode but I think you could write a bash script to do it with convert.

Paulo Matos

A B said:

I'm converting a huge load of sprites from a game into ones suitable for use in another (from Myth II to Doom) and of course this involves a huge amount of repetitive actions- to change the image mode from indexed to RGB, back to indexed but with the Doom palette, and then to go through all the hundreds of seperate frames and manually replace the blue (of hexadecimal reference 0000FF) with another colour (00FFFF). Since it is entirely repetitive, I reckoned batch mode could deal with it, so I read the tutorial at gimp.org on batch mode, but cannot understand it. I would manage to understand it in time, but in the meantime, does anyone know of any utilities that could help? for example are there any tools that could be used to assist in the generation of the batch scripts? Also, can the image-

A B wrote:

I'm converting a huge load of sprites from a game into ones suitable for use in another (from Myth II to Doom) and of course this involves a huge amount of repetitive actions- to change the image mode from indexed to RGB, back to indexed but with the Doom palette, and then to go through all the hundreds of seperate frames and manually replace the blue (of hexadecimal reference 0000FF) with another colour (00FFFF). Since it is entirely repetitive, I reckoned batch

I too would like to know how to write batch scripts for gimp. I've used convert before but what I need to do can't be accomplished with that program.

I have read the one page tutorial on batch mode, http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ and have copied and pasted the script and commands and they don't work.

Anyone have a better tutorial that they can point us to?

Thanks in advance!

Jim

On 7/27/05, Jim wrote:

A B wrote:

I'm converting a huge load of sprites from a game into ones suitable for use in another (from Myth II to Doom) and of course this involves a huge amount of repetitive actions- to change the image mode from indexed to RGB, back to indexed but with the Doom palette, and then to go through all the hundreds of seperate frames and manually replace the blue (of hexadecimal reference 0000FF) with another colour (00FFFF). Since it is entirely repetitive, I reckoned batch

I too would like to know how to write batch scripts for gimp. I've used convert before but what I need to do can't be accomplished with that program.

I have read the one page tutorial on batch mode, http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ and have copied and pasted the script and commands and they don't work.

Anyone have a better tutorial that they can point us to?

To be honest, no, because documentation is absolutely horrid in GIMP. However, you may wish to investigate books on Perl and Python, as well as Web Documentation on Scheme, Script-Fu and SIOD. In The GIMP, there is a SIOD console, and the procedure viewer lists the prototypes for the commands that can be accessed by scripts. BTW, the procedure browser lists commands with an underscore, but my version of the SIOD (Scheme) interpreter in the console uses dashes in places of the underscores.

First, you may wish to investigate the file_glob, and then things such as gimp-file-open or whatever it was called. You might also want to look up the colour exchange and the like (I believe the commands are prefixed with plugin- or something).

Although at this rate, surely it must have been faster to do it manually by hand than go through the trouble of scripting with GIMP? Unless you plan to due this often, repetitively, to many large batches, it's probably faster to do it by hand.

I'm new at scripting too, however, so I can't suggest a better method (I don't even know if this is the _recommended_ method of scripting).

Consider asking gimp-developer, since apparently that was supposed to be the designate mailing list for script/plugin development. *shrugs*

Hi,

Jim writes:

I have read the one page tutorial on batch mode, http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ and have copied and pasted the script and commands and they don't work.

The tutorial is supposed to work. You might want to tell us in what way it doesn't work for you.

Sven

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Jim writes:

I have read the one page tutorial on batch mode, http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ and have copied and pasted the script and commands and they don't work.

The tutorial is supposed to work. You might want to tell us in what way it doesn't work for you.

Sven

Hi Sven,

I created the script file on the webpage and called it batch-unsharp-mask

In the script file I have these lines:

(define (batch-unsharp-mask pattern radius amount threshold) (let* ((filelist (cadr (file-glob pattern 1)))) (while filelist
(let* ((filename (car filelist)) (image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filename filename))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image)))) (plug-in-unsharp-mask RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable radius amount threshold) (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable filename filename) (gimp-image-delete image)) (set! filelist (cdr filelist)))))

This is the command I run from the console:

gimp -i -b '(batch-unsharp-mask "*.jpg" 1.0 0.5 1)' '(gimp-quit 0)'

And this is the end result:

No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug_in_script_fu_eval'. batch command: experienced an execution error.

A bit of background info, I am running Fedora Core 3, gimp version 2.2.6 and Fedora is up to date with all of the released updates.

Thanks!

Jim