hello, On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:43:43AM +0200, Mohamed Hassan wrote: > <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>HI</FONT></DIV> > <DIV class=RTE><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>iam making a utility to do batch processing for blur filters (command Line) using GIMP,i have tried the batch and it is working fine, but it takes around 30 seconds to run on </FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">my machine (I have a 3GHz processor, 1GB ram, windowsXP?)??</SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When I use the Windows interface for GIMP, it doesn?t take more than a couple of seconds at max to apply </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">any of the blur filters (so it is not a machine issue?). </SPAN></FONT></DIV> > <DIV class=RTE><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">most of the time used to load filters/fonts/plug-ins/scripts/extensions</SPAN></FONT></DIV> > <DIV class=RTE><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">how can i dont load these extra with me when running batch file & how can i use a single instance of GIMP to run all my command?????</SPAN></FONT></DIV> > <DIV class=RTE><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV></div></html> > i apologize for not stripping the irrelevant stuff from this email. the way i have run gimp from the commandline and had it perform many tasks in one instance is to write a script for it. win-gimp has a script-fu interpreter for this. i am using linux so i get python. an application that is available for doing these tasks from the command line is ImageMagick although the difference between learning to run this from the commandline and writing script-fu for gimp might be small. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer