On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:41:55 +0200 (CEST) kovzol <kovzol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, I'm using GIMP-1.2.5 under Linux. Is it possible to start the > GIMP-Perl server from command line? Sure, do something like this: gimp -i -b '(extension-perl-server 0 0 0)'& >(As I earlier mentioned, I'd like to > run a Perl-Fu script and as I experienced, I have about 60% of speedup on > a 256 MB RAM, 600 MHz PC machine if I start GIMP-Perl server first from > GIMP, but in the future I should start the GIMP-Perl server automagically, > e.g. on booting Linux.) AFAIK Gimp 1.2 still needs access to a X server for font rendering. To implement a 'headless Gimp server', you could use Xvfb. Gimp 2.0.X does font rendering on the client side, no X server required. Might be a better solution. Dynamic web graphics using a 'Gimp server' for 'on-the-fly rendering' is pretty cool stuff. Speed is often an issue, so caching the rendering results might be a good idea. I implemented something like this a couple of years ago, when graphic rendering of textual content (menu buttons, etc) was fashionable ;-). - Vegard -
