[Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
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

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Alvin Hikmawan S.Psi.
I 'm using GIMP 2.6 and when I wanna resizing a lot of pictures, i use david's batch processor feature. filter-batch. In the last tab of the window, you can pick the output file type (I think the *.png is in the list). Just try to playing with the feature some while, to get used to with it. I

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 06/21/13 14:06, Alvin Hikmawan S.Psi. wrote: I 'm using GIMP 2.6 and when I wanna resizing a lot of pictures, i use david's batch processor feature. filter-batch. In the last tab of the window, you can pick the output file type (I think the *.png is in the list). Just try to playing with the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Pat David
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

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 06/21/13 14:26, Pat David wrote: 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). I only saved to tif because I used the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Pat David
I would leave the tifs alone as your original/base files, and only convert to xcf as you need for processing them. No need to double your disk usage just to have them ahead of time (it will happen as you touch them anyway, assuming you save them as xcf after processing)... On Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

2013-06-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 14:31 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: I felt tif would be 'good enough' until I could get them set up on my laptop It probably was, although png files are often a lot smaller in practice. If the images are important, save the png files: xcf is not really a good archival