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On 02/25/2011 04:55 PM, Dragonlord666 wrote:

I've searched the forum but cannot find a way to do this. it's probably looking me in the face but......

What I need to do is, take an image, split it into strips about 1/4 inch wide but have them so I can put them back. the actual size of the slices can be varied but each slice has to be the same size across the whole image.

is there a way to do this using GIMP on a mac?

I did see a add in but it was for windows only.

Put guides where you want the strips borders to be and use Image/Transform/Guillotine that will create N images (you still have to save each by hand).

On 02/25/2011 08:40 AM, Ofnuts wrote:

On 02/25/2011 04:55 PM, Dragonlord666 wrote:

I've searched the forum but cannot find a way to do this. it's probably looking me in the face but......

What I need to do is, take an image, split it into strips about 1/4 inch wide but have them so I can put them back. the actual size of the slices can be varied but each slice has to be the same size across the whole image.

is there a way to do this using GIMP on a mac?

I did see a add in but it was for windows only.

Put guides where you want the strips borders to be and use Image/Transform/Guillotine that will create N images (you still have to save each by hand).

Inkscape is an ideal tool for dividing images into multiple pieces. This would be done from the command line with a script. It might particularly well handle your case if you have several images, all the same size, and the strip width(s) in pixels can be calculated.

-- Burnie

On 02/25/2011 06:13 PM, Burnie West wrote:

On 02/25/2011 08:40 AM, Ofnuts wrote:

On 02/25/2011 04:55 PM, Dragonlord666 wrote:

I've searched the forum but cannot find a way to do this. it's probably looking me in the face but......

What I need to do is, take an image, split it into strips about 1/4 inch wide but have them so I can put them back. the actual size of the slices can be varied but each slice has to be the same size across the whole image.

is there a way to do this using GIMP on a mac?

I did see a add in but it was for windows only.

Put guides where you want the strips borders to be and use Image/Transform/Guillotine that will create N images (you still have to save each by hand).

Inkscape is an ideal tool for dividing images into multiple pieces. This would be done from the command line with a script. It might particularly well handle your case if you have several images, all the same size, and the strip width(s) in pixels can be calculated.

Aren't you confusing Inkscape and ImageMagick here? Because I would also recommend ImageMagick if this were to be scripted.

On 02/25/2011 01:55 PM, Ofnuts wrote:

On 02/25/2011 06:13 PM, Burnie West wrote:

On 02/25/2011 08:40 AM, Ofnuts wrote:

On 02/25/2011 04:55 PM, Dragonlord666 wrote:

I've searched the forum but cannot find a way to do this. it's probably looking me in the face but......

What I need to do is, take an image, split it into strips about 1/4 inch wide but have them so I can put them back. the actual size of the slices can be varied but each slice has to be the same size across the whole image.

is there a way to do this using GIMP on a mac?

I did see a add in but it was for windows only.

Put guides where you want the strips borders to be and use Image/Transform/Guillotine that will create N images (you still have to save each by hand).

Inkscape is an ideal tool for dividing images into multiple pieces. This would be done from the command line with a script. It might particularly well handle your case if you have several images, all the same size, and the strip width(s) in pixels can be calculated.

Aren't you confusing Inkscape and ImageMagick here? Because I would also recommend ImageMagick if this were to be scripted.

Actually not - I've used inkscape this way a fair amount; I have not used ImageMagick; I have no doubt it would work as well.

As an example, I have a one-line script that cuts a specific block out of a large number of images:

for it in `ls *.png`; do inkscape -f $it -a 267:53:1156:582 -e charts/$it; done

the four numbers separated by colons are the lower right and upper left corners of the image

On 02/28/2011 05:47 AM, Dragonlord666 wrote:

Thanks everyone, I'll have a go and see what works best.

I did look at slice but did not get any slices, I must be doing it wrong LOL I'll have to read up on it.

guillotine may work, looks like I'll have to slice it up, save each piece do the same for the other pic then load each piece back in for both images to arrange how I need them - not a big thing, really, could be a lot of work if they are big images.

I'm not up with scripts in inkscape, will have to check out how they are created etc.

FWIW, the script I posted earlier is itself simply a console command, and it's the first thing I ever did in Inkscape :)