* Mark Feit <mf...@notonthe.net> [12-12-18 09:36]: > On 12/11/18 10:07 PM, Terry Duell wrote: > > > > The requirement for uncropped images seriously complicates the task if > > using darktable-cli. > > The request is to have a 'crop=0' switch (or similar) for > > darktable-cli...if that is possible, and reasonable. > > That would start a trend of having to propagate a lot of switches out to > darktable-cli, which wouldn't end well. Everything needed to bend darktable > to your will is already in the sidecar (XMP) file that goes with each > image. What's missing is an alternate sidecar with the cropping turned off > that could be handed to darktable-cli. > > I did the following manually for a single image and it produced the right > thing: > > 1. Make a copy of the image's sidecar file (cp image.nef.xmp > image.nef.xmp-nocrop). > > 2. Edit the copy (vi image.nef.xmp-nocrop), locate all of the rdf:li items > where darktable:operation is "clipping" and change darktable:enabled to > "0". This process can be automated with xsltproc or XMLStarlet. The latter > is available on all three of the platforms where darktable is supported. > (You could probably get away with some sneaky sed-based tricks, but I don't > recommend that because the arrangement of the XML shouldn't be considered > stable. Use the right tool for the job.) > > 3. Run darktable-cli against the image and edited XMP to produce an > uncropped version of the image (darktable-cli image.nef image.nef.xmp-nocrop > image-uncropped.jpg). > > 4. Harvest the uncropped image for distribution and remove it and the > edited sidecar if you don't want to keep them around. > > > Turning it into a shell script that can operate against any set of files you > choose should be an easy exercise. (It's an interesting enough problem that > I might do it myself.)
and I believe that was more or less the first suggestion given. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
