Re: Intent to package: libgimp-perl [Re: Gimp perl scripts for Debian buttons]
Anthony Fok wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 12:07:17PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > My question is now if the perl library could help me. I wanted
> > to load an image scale it to certain dimensions and save it in
> > a batch script (without any display). I didn't find a way to
> > do it via `gimp -b` but could the library possibly help me for
> > that task. The job should be done from a perl script anyway so
> > the use of Perl would be welcome.
>
> Yes, it is possible. Craig Small, who wrote the original Gimp perl
> scripts, taught me in his scripts. :-) The script was probably
> written for an earlier version of Gimp, but some Gimp's function
> syntax has changed a tiny bit, so the attached one has been
> adapted to work with Gimp 1.1.5.
>
> This is the command:
>
> gimp --no-interface --no-data --batch '(extension-perl-server 0 0 0)' &
>
Last I looked at gimp-perl, this wasn't necessary. If you ran a
gimp-perl without running gimp first, it ran gimp automatically in the
background.
Jules
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