Hi! On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Frank Barknecht <f...@footils.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have to do some tedious work, namely crop many images to four aspect > ratios: 4:3, 3:4, 1:1 and 4:1. For each image I need to select > the picture detail to preserve manually, so this cannot be automated. > But I'd like to automate as much as possible from the rest of this > task. > > I tried to write a Script-Fu for this, but while the Rectangle > Selection tool offers a nice input element for a fixed aspect ratio in > its Tool Options, this setting is not available in the > "gimp-rect-select" procedure, which only offers x, y, width and > height. That's because it's redundant in that context, since a little basic math can produce width/height values from an aspect ratio.
> > I already saved some Tool Presets for setting the options to 4:3, 3:4, > ... aspect ratios, but it seems, Tool Options can only be restored by > using the Mouse, which I'd like to avoid as much as possible. Is there > a way to add a keyboard shortcut to a certain Tool Preset, which I > overlooked? AFAIK no -- I've been wanting this for a while, and I haven't found a reasonable way to implement it myself. > > Any other hints how to make my job less tedious? > You may be able to use tools like xdotool to automatically transfer the aspect ratio into the rectangle-select tool options after the user chooses which. David _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
