Installing additional scripts
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| Installing additional scripts | Juliet Jennifer Mari R | 31 May 16:05 |
| Installing additional scripts | Joel | 01 Jun 00:37 |
| julietjmarie@icqmail.com | 07 Oct 20:15 | |
| Installing additional scripts | Jeff Trefftzs | 01 Jun 01:23 |
Installing additional scripts
Hallo gimpies,
Has anybody an idea how to install new additional scripts in Gimp? Suppose you have a written Script- Fu- script stored as a textfile of course, and want the script to be executeable via the submenu of the popup window or through the Script- Fu database console window as a command, one of the two option shall be sufficient enough to get explained. I have already tried to store the scripts in the appropriate /scripts directory of the gimp installation of course, but that did not imply any automatic loading procedure... which I had exspected. Is there a mechanism of automatically loading scripts into menus available or is there any special type of script configuration file additionally, where all actual scripts are listed and where you can configure at least the file manually...? And: the file suffix of the script might be of help too, as .txt might not be the proper format. Thanx.
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1. Losing precision (John Culleton) 2. Re: Losing precision (Roland Roberts) 3. Re: Losing precision (Jon Winters)
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Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Losing precision From: Roland Roberts
Date: 30 May 2002 13:30:24 -0400"John" == John Culleton writes:
John> I have a JPEG that was scanned at say 300dpi. I reduce it in John> size in Gimp. Now the dpi shoots up in proportion. I want to John> use the reduced image on a web page where anything over John> 75dpi is overkill. I know I can scale back the precision John> when I save the file but what is the relationship if any John> between the percentages shown on the save dialogue and the John> dpi of the saved image?
If you are putting it on the web, ignore DPI. You don't care about DPI, you care about dimensions. DPI will have *no* effect on what you see for a web image.
roland
Installing additional scripts
Has anybody an idea how to install new additional scripts in Gimp? Suppose you have a written Script- Fu- script stored as a textfile of course, and want the script to be executeable via the submenu of the popup window or through the Script- Fu database console window as a command, one of the two option shall be sufficient enough to get explained. I have already tried to store the scripts in the appropriate /scripts directory of the gimp installation of course, but that did not imply any automatic loading procedure... which I had exspected. Is there a mechanism of automatically loading scripts into menus available or is there any special type of script configuration file additionally, where all actual scripts are listed and where you can configure at least the file manually...? And: the file suffix of the script might be of help too, as .txt might not be the proper format. Thanx.
Gimp automatically loads any script it finds when it starts. There isn't any special configuration necessary, but they do need to be correctly formatted, named, and in the correct directory.
Scheme scripts should have a .scm extension, in /usr/share/gimp//scripts or $HOME/.gimp/scripts.
Perl and Python scripts don't need an extension (under Linux, anyway...), but they should be set to executable, and be put in /usr/lib/gimp//plug-ins/ or $HOME/.gimp/plug-ins.
In either case, Gimp will try to validate each script when it opens it. If there is a critical error in the script itself, it will usually show this message when run from a command line: LibGimp-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read: unexpected EOF
You can call the script from any part of the menu you want, just specify where it should be put in the register function. Here is an example (in Scheme):
; Register the function with the GIMP:
(script-fu-register
"script-fu-my-script"
_"/Script-Fu/MyScript" 0
)
--Joel
Installing additional scripts
Hi Juliet,
To get at your new script-fu you need to do the following:
1. Place the text file (my-new-script-fu.scm) in your own .gimp/scripts
directory.
In my case, it's ~/.gimp-1.2/scripts
2. In the gimp, go to /Xtns/Script-Fu/Refresh to force a reload of
the
scripts.
That should do it.
If problems arise, check (a) where you registered the script; (b) that there are no leftover editor backup files lying around; and (c) that your scheme code has all its proper parentheses and doesn't contain errors.
I have discovered that after long edit/test sessions with a new script that things often work better if I restart the GIMP.
If your script-fu is actually a perl-fu, one does it differently. Perl scripts are traditionally saved in the ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins directory, and to test them from your favorite text editor you need to start the gimp's perl server (/Xtns/Perl/Server), after which you can run the perl script from the command line in your editor. I have discovered that editor backup files for perl scripts in the plug-ins directory do get loaded as plug-ins, and may (nay, probably will) mess up your debugging sessions. So make sure no old backup files are left lying around.
I have also noticed problems when working with perl -- if the new plugin/script complains about something really strange like a color being bad or anything else that seems really off the wall, go into the /Xtns/Parasite_Editor and delete the entry corresponding to the misbehaving plug-in. This happens usually when I have changed something in the interface and the parasite contains saved values from the previous version.
HTH,
