> Robert Starr writes: > > I'd like to talk a bit about this "Contact Sheet" and see if anyone on > > the list has any comments. > > > 1-Select Contact Sheet > > 2-Dialogue appears asking various options: > > [...] > > That's about it, you hit create and it grabs the files, one at a time > > from the chosen directory, shrinks them into thumbnails and places them > > > on the contact sheet according to the number of rows and colums. > > Umm, yes, this definitely is not a Filter type plug-in, so you won't > be able to run it in GIMP through the pspi plug-in. Maybe it's an > Automation plug-in? > > > So, can this be done in the GIMP? Can it be scripted or is that > > too complicated a procedure? > > Presumably something like this might be scriptable with script-fu? > Hmm. Except that maybe there is no exposed way to do readdir() and > stat() type stuff from script-fu? From Gimp-Perl it certainly would be > possible, but that won't help you as Gimp-Perl hasn't been ported to > Windows. > > But: > > For batch image conversion and similar tasks, it is always suggested > to use ImageMagick instead of GIMP. I wouldn't at all be surprised if > ImageMagick had this functionality? Check www.imagemagick.org. If > ImageMagick does what you need, I don't think there really is much > sense in writing a script or plug-in to do it from GIMP, as this > basically is a batch job -style task and not interactive image > manipulation. Piece of cake for Perl scripting ! Just take Gallery maker plugin and change some lines :)))) About Perl-Gimp for Windows, I've done a skeleton of that stuff.... Problem is it doesn't work with structs yet (Perl blessing doesn't work at all). Regards, Fabian -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
