GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 769556
Suggestion to add batch functions to GIMP
Last modified: 2016-08-29 21:34:49 UTC
Created attachment 332802 [details] 1 Hi. GIMP currently have no batch functions from GUI. It will be very useful to add "Batch proccessing" to "File" menu. I take 3 screenshots from Irfanview program which has very excellent batch functions ableties. screenshot number 1: show "Batch" option in "File" menu screenshot number 2: show dailog that opened after click on "Batch" in "File" menu. Please look for "Use advanced options for bulk ...." that I marked by red rectangle & red arrow. Please activate this option then click on "Advanced" that I marked by blue arrow. screenshot number 3: dailog that result from clicking on "Advanced" in screenshot number 2 above. Look for great options !! I will comment on 2 of them: - "rotate left & rotate right" (I mark then by green rectangle & green arrow) - "apply changes to all pages (TIF/PDF saving): by using this option user can apply changes to all pages of SINGLE multi-page file ! This will be very useful to avoid wasting time in case for example: scanning book composed from 600 page using multi-page file output option by scanner so that the result of scanning will be single file (tiff or pcx) of multi-page type composing from many pages. Supposed now user - for decrease time of scanning - used to scan every 2 faced printed pages together per each scanned process. Now the resulted single multi-page file will composed of 300 page. Let we suppose that book pages size is larg that nessesate from user to put book vertically (one of faced printed pages up & other down) within scanner (to get enough area within scanner). Now resulted multi-page single file composed from pages that need batch rotation to make every 2 faced printed pages appear one beside other (not one bellow other). By using rotation in combination with "apply changes to all pages" Irfanview able to do the needed rotation as just one click avoiding user by that from loss a lot of times by rotating every picture page one by one. I does like developer team of GIMP to copy Irfanview stile, & it will be very nice to see GIMP developers team special "flavour" when they adding such great features. Best
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Hi, Thanks for the feature request. This is indeed a very interesting feature, but it would be more suited as a plugin than a core feature. And as a matter of fact, it exists: http://registry.gimp.org/node/26259 There is also an official website, and from a quick glance at their repository, it looks like the development is still active: http://www.alessandrofrancesconi.it/projects/bimp/ Since it is a third party plugin, if you have any report for bugs or features, you should do it there of course. Should we close?
This is actually a duplicate of bug 148333. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148333 ***
I disagree with Jehan. Dear Jehan, if you look for other programs, you will see such batch functions as integral core features. To elevate GIMP more in sky it will be better to make batch functions core elements of program.
Bug 148333. is effectively about that.
Just to make things clear: this proposition has not been rejected. It was closed as a duplicate to another similar proposition. Also most of GIMP features are actually a plugin, or extension of some sort. It does not make these features less good or useful. So this could actually make it into the official GIMP release by still being implemented as a plugin. Now there may be some reasons where it could be better implemented as a real core feature. In any case, we will still need designers and developers interested into working on this, as a first step. In any case, no need to answer here anymore. As I said, the proposition is not rejected. If anything to add, please do it on the other report: bug 148333.