On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:25:09 +0100, Eckhard M. Jäger <bart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Sven, > > thanks for the link and the help. > > there is a thing that i don't understand, my script is opening the file > and so the thumbnail > is generated by Gimp automaticly when closing gimp. > > I thought using gimp-file-save-thumbnail would be faster and uses less > memory then opening > the files like i did. But now i read the documentation and see to use > gimp-file-save-thumbnail > i have to open the file first to get the image ID. > > So my question is: Is there an advantage using gimp-file-save-thumbnail? > > > Hi, As Liam suggested ImageMagick is a command line tool intended for precisely the sort of processing you are trying to do and will certainly be much lighter and faster than a full GUI image processing program like gimp. You could get your script to use gimp for (rare) cases like xcf format where you dont have an option. http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#python HTH /gg -- .*. /V\ (/ \) ( ) ^^_^^ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
