I'm curious, why the desire to batch-export to .xcf? You can batch directly to .png and/or leave the .tif as they are, and allow GIMP to import them when you want to work on them (and _then_ save to .xcf as you work).
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr <jnagyjr1...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey All, > > I have about 160-ish images I scanned in as .tif's (my scanner offers > .bmp, .jpg, .png, and .tif for saving scanned images as) @ 300-dpi. I'd > like to batch export them all to .xcf (for future working with) and .png (I > know I could have chose png to start but I thought .tif would be the better > choice as a first format). Is it possible to do this with a shell-script? > I'm fairly certain I could concoct something to .tif -> .png using > ImageMagick (I don't think it supports .xcf) but I'd like to use The GIMP > for the whole process if possible, and I'd rather not do it by hand. As it > is I'm going to have to figure out how to batch-rename (well, I know how > I'm going to do it, a shell script, but how to write it is going to be the > tough part for me) about 100 if the images to prepend a 0 to the file name > (I started with a two-digit numbering system not realizing I had so many > images and would like to keep all the names listing properly on FreeBSD). > > Anyway, I'm just interested in knowing from you guys if such a shell > export-to-xcf-and-png script is even possible (I really, really do not want > to do this manually). > -- > Yours in Christ, > > Joseph A Nagy Jr > "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction > is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/* > *owl/license.txt <http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt> > ______________________________**_________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-** > list <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list> > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
