Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

On 2008-05-31, John DuBois <spcecdt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <YJCdnb2xOe0Ft93VnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Ignoramus23731  <ignoramus23731@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>I use XV for image editing, since 90% of time all I need to do is
>>quick crop and resize. XV has nice keyboard shortcuts.
>>...
>>So I can edit a picture in approximately one or two seconds by
>>pressing, for instance: ",,, <select rectangle with mouse> c Ctrl-S
>>ENTER ENTER ENTER". That's it.
>>
>>It is very useful when I have to process a lot of pictures at once,
>>for example pictures of stuff to be sold on ebay.
>
> Having used xv for 15 years now, I had about the same feeling about
> simple image editing in xv vs. the gimp.  After I started using the
> gimp, for some time I continued to do my cropping in xv and then
> used the gimp only for those images that required more sophisticated
> processing.  I've gradually been won over by the nicer feel of the
> gimp's crop selection, and the convenience of doing it all with one
> tool, particularly after finding its cropping shortcuts.

There are a few things in gimp that I find ***bersome, quite probably
due to my lack of knowledge (I plan on asking a few questions
today). However, due to increase in computer speed, gimp is no longer
as slow as it used to be compared to xv. 

> The last im****tant xv characteristic that I haven't yet found a way
> to emulate is the behavior of only opening one
> command-line-specified file at a time, and easily (from the
> keyboard) going on to the next image when I'm done with the current
> one.  Is there a way of making the gimp behave this way?  That is -
> I want to specify the files to operate on on the command line, and I
> do *not* want them all opened initially; I may be perusing, and
> selectively editing, several hundred images in one round (all
> selected according to some criteria on the command line).  In xv,
> it's a matter of "hit space to open the next image in place of the
> current one"; the closer to that I can get, the better...

You just need a simple shell script

for i in *.jpg; do 
  gimp $i
done

the little overhead here is in starting a new instance of gimp every
time.

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