I use the Gimp to view and print (a lof of) pictures taken with my digicam.

What I personally find somewhat time-consuming is the first time preview of the pictures while in the "Open file" menu. It is apparent that the Gimp has to execute some slow procedure which also records the small preview picture somewhere.

Is there anyway to produce all the preview picture in a bulk(, even before loading the Gimp)?

I mean, for instance, any (existing) perl procedure?

Ciao Vittorio

Hi!
--- Vittorio wrote:

Is there anyway to produce all the preview picture in a bulk(, even
before loading the Gimp)?

I mean, for instance, any (existing) perl procedure?

You can use Guash plugin, so it will make previews for a whole directory at once.

Alex

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Sven Neumann [gimp-user] :

Hi,

Vittorio writes:

I use the Gimp to view and print (a lof of) pictures taken with my digicam.

What I personally find somewhat time-consuming is the first time preview of the pictures while in the "Open file" menu. It is apparent that the Gimp has to execute some slow procedure which also records the small preview picture somewhere.

Is there anyway to produce all the preview picture in a bulk(, even before loading the Gimp)?

I'm not aware of a script that creates the previews (although it should be trivial to write one) but you can select all files in the GIMP file selector and generate the previews in one go.

Sven

I had a go at it but unfortunately the gimp (1.2.3 under linux) executes the preview for half the pictures, that is every other picture. I mean that having pics p1010001.jpg, p1010002,..p1010081.jpg the gimp is showing the preview for

p1010001.jpg p1010003.jpg
.........
........
p1010079.jpg
p1010081.jpg

neglecting the even numbered pics..... (??????)

Thanks Vittorio