On 9/1/05, Stefano Masini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, is it possible to use the gimp as a simple backend? I mean, wrap
> some functionality inside a pythonic api, so that I can do stuff like:
> open('foo.eps').save('preview.jpeg') ?I think so. http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/#Script Also check http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/pygimp/ and look at the details for the "console" plugin. > > It's worth a try... Obviously photoshop is a resource intensive > > application, but once it's running it operates pretty quick. > > I've already done it. Scripting Photoshop with COM is ugly, but > possible. The problem is that since the architecture runs on a > separate machine, I have to implement a system that exports such > functionality over sockets. Again, possible, but quite tedious, > expecially because it easily grows into something that you have to > maintain more that you would like to, given the simple need to open a > file and save it in a different format! :( > So frustrating! I personally use imagemagick... I'm not 100% positive, but I think it will do all you've mentioned, including working with the PSD files. There are some python wrappers for this as well. http://starship.python.net/crew/zack/pymagick/ (for one example) The trick is building ImageMagick with all of the right libraries to get the full functionality. I would do it on Linux, but that's me. -- Matthew Nuzum www.bearfruit.org _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
