Re: [Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format tothe other

2003-07-21 Thread Phillip Bruce
Harish Narayanan wrote: Hi, You could use convert from the ImageMagick suite and a small bash script like: #!/bin/bash for image in *.bmp; do target=`echo $image | sed s/.bmp/.jpg/` convert $image $target done Or something similar. Harish Harish, Thanks that exactly what I was missing. The

RE: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

2003-07-21 Thread G . DeSercey
In the file area of the gimpwin-user yahoo group, there's a script I wrote that will fit text to a path. It won't write the text vertically the way you want, but it will work nicely for arcs. I think you need to be a member of the group to access the file. The url is:

Re: [Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format tothe other

2003-07-21 Thread Geoffrey
Phillip Bruce wrote: Hi, I have a bunch of bmp images that I want to convert to jpeg format. How can I do this without having to go thru each image at a time? use imagemagick, convert: # this is ksh for fn in *.bmp;do convert $fn ${foo#*.bmp}.jpg done -- Until later: Geoffrey

Re: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

2003-07-21 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: write vertical text, like T H I S It cannot do this. At least not without major hassle like moving the glyphs around manually. I don't plan to add support for vertical text until Pango supports it. Well, as someone pointed out, you can

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop and register marks

2003-07-21 Thread Carol Spears
Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: I am working on a python-fu script to add crop and register printing marks to the GIMP images. Not pratical - it have to be run manually before printing, and the marks have to be cropped out if one is going to scale the image further afterwards (last the cropmarks get

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop and register marks

2003-07-21 Thread Raymond Ostertag
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:57:05 -0400 Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be nice to have a place to put scripts that are not yet ready for the new user, but still ready for more seasoned script writers somewhere that we all have access to. i have a few scripts i would like to

Re: [Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format tothe other

2003-07-21 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 20 Jul 2003 at 23:45, Harish Narayanan wrote: Hi, You could use convert from the ImageMagick suite and a small bash script like: #!/bin/bash for image in *.bmp; do target=`echo $image | sed s/.bmp/.jpg/` convert $image $target done mogrify -format jpg *.bmp I'd recommend using

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop and register marks

2003-07-21 Thread Carol Spears
Raymond Ostertag wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:57:05 -0400 Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be nice to have a place to put scripts that are not yet ready for the new user, but still ready for more seasoned script writers somewhere that we all have access to. i have a few scripts

Re: [Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format tothe other

2003-07-21 Thread Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher wrote: I'd recommend using GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick, too http://www.graphicsmagick.org Why? GraphicsMagick is designed for stability. You may even call it the stable release of ImageMagick. According to their mission goal, the developers aim for: - fewer

Re: [Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format tothe other

2003-07-21 Thread Geoffrey
Michael Schumacher wrote: Michael Schumacher wrote: I'd recommend using GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick, too http://www.graphicsmagick.org Why? GraphicsMagick is designed for stability. You may even call it the stable release of ImageMagick. I'm all for stability, but I've never had any