Thanks for the hints ... Some interesting developments while running under sudo. The first run: ----------------------------- sudo -u www-data gimp --no-interface --batch='(python-fu-pdf2jpg RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "/dd/d/app/front/PAK_live/srvr/xformx.com/run/pdf_forms/le-50.0.11.01(2008-10)d8.pdf" )' --batch='(gimp-quit 1)' ----------------------------- gives error: error: Cannot create folder '/var/www/.gimp-2.6': Permission denied So I temporarily opened up /var/www with permission 777 and tried previous command again - to see that gimp is going to write in the /var/www directory: ---------------------------------- sudo -u www-data gimp --no-interface --batch='(python-fu-pdf2jpg RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "/dd/d/app/front/PAK_live/srvr/xformx.com/run/pdf_forms/le-50.0.11.01(2008-10)d8.pdf" )' --batch='(gimp-quit 1)' No protocol specified /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) No protocol specified (file-uri:5738): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 (gimp:5568): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error No protocol specified /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) batch command executed successfully ---------------------------------- This 2nd run interesting things (FINALLY) happened :) The most important is the last line: it says that gimp executed my plugin, and indeed, it did (wrote some debug file to the filesystem, as expected). Also, after examining '/var/www', I see that gimp created 2 new directories: drwx------ 4 www-data www-data 4096 2009-10-02 15:38 .gegl-0.0 drwxr-xr-x 21 www-data www-data 4096 2009-10-02 15:38 .gimp-2.6 I don't know how safe it is to keep these Gimp directories inside my main apache directory - it probably opens up some hole of some kind - but anyway, priority now is to make Gimp happy. I'll deal with holes inside my web server later ... Conclusion: it seems Gimp needed these 2 dirs in that place, as now it seems to work with my preliminary (i.e. debugging) code. The key was to run that gimp command as "sudo -u www-data gimp ..." to get that error message. Before that, I had no idea what Gimp was complaining about, or if it was even invoked at all ... Thanks for your help, suggestions, and happy Gimping all ! (I'll be 'web-gimping' in my case :) vio _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
