[Gimp-user] whats the best way to learn script-fu
Whats the best way to learn script-fu? Is there a good online tutorial? A book? Seems to be a ton of instruction material on the web and I was wondering if anyone can recomend something specific that they thought was the best way to get started with batch image processing with gimp. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] whats the best way to learn script-fu
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:59 PM, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the best way to learn script-fu? Is there a good online tutorial? A book? Seems to be a ton of instruction material on the web and I was wondering if anyone can recomend something specific that they thought was the best way to get started with batch image processing with gimp. Yes. Learn Python instead, as Python, since GIMP 2.4+, is the preferred scripting language for gimp plugins, and it is far more approachable than script-fu, unless you have LISP/Scheme experience. . If you don't like that idea, or you cannot guarantee that your users will all be using 2.4 with Python support, you could visit http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/forum/GIMP-Plugins-Filters-and-Scripts-9-1.html since there is a script-fu there that does batch resizing -- you could modify it to do batch [whatever you want] or just study it. If you do like that idea, http://www.diveintopython.org is a great way to get started with Python, and http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-84073.html provides an example batch processing python script which I will quote here, since it's not correctly indented there: #! /usr/bin/env python from gimpfu import * import glob def batch_unsharp_mask( file_pattern, radius, amount, threshold ): file_list=glob.glob(file_pattern) file_list.sort() for file_name in file_list: image = pdb.gimp_file_load(file_name, file_name) drawable = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_layer(image) pdb.plug_in_unsharp_mask(image, drawable, radius, amount, threshold) pdb.gimp_file_save(image, drawable, file_name, file_name) pdb.gimp_image_delete(image) register( batch_unsharp_mask, , , , , , Toolbox/Xtns/Languages/Python-Fu/Test/_Batch Unsharp Mask, , [ (PF_STRING, file_pattern, file_pattern, *.png), (PF_FLOAT, radius, Radius, 5.0 ), (PF_FLOAT, amount, Amount, 0.5 ), (PF_INT32, threshold, Threshold, 0 ) ], [], batch_unsharp_mask ) main() The 'gimptalk' link I gave also has a guide to getting GIMP-Python working in windows. If you're using Linux, it's probably already working and available :) After learning python, http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html can provide you the details of how the GIMP API works in python. Hope that helps! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] whats the best way to learn script-fu
Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 21:36 +1030, David Gowers wrote: register( batch_unsharp_mask, , , , , , Toolbox/Xtns/Languages/Python-Fu/Test/_Batch Unsharp Mask, , [ (PF_STRING, file_pattern, file_pattern, *.png), (PF_FLOAT, radius, Radius, 5.0 ), (PF_FLOAT, amount, Amount, 0.5 ), (PF_INT32, threshold, Threshold, 0 ) ], [], batch_unsharp_mask ) It would be so much nicer if example scripts like this one would use the new register API instead of the deprecated one that is being used here. Please use this instead: register( batch-unsharp-mask, , , , , , _Batch Unsharp Mask, , [ (PF_STRING, file-pattern, File Pattern, *.png), (PF_FLOAT, radius, Radius, 5.0 ), (PF_FLOAT, amount, Amount, 0.5 ), (PF_INT32, threshold, Threshold, 0 ) ], [], batch_unsharp_mask, menu=Toolbox/Xtns/Languages/Python-Fu/Test ) Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user