Hi all,

I've got a script for processing a bunch of files which starts by bringing up ufraw. I would like to have ufraw save the list of modifications made before returning to gimp. (.ufraw file)

However, when gimp starts ufraw, it passes some option to ufraw which causes ufraw to not display the save tab which allows setting what to save.

Is there a way to tell gimp to bring up ufraw differently, or is the problem in ufraw?

Thanks for any insights,

Gary

On 09/20/12 22:54, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 22:37 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:

Is there a way to tell gimp to bring up ufraw differently,

You can run ufraw outside of gimp, not as a plugin.

I'm trying to automate a process, and don't want to have to manually start ufraw. I could start ufraw and use its "gimp" button to transfer control to gimp, but that doesn't do what I want either -- if you tell ufraw to "save" to get the .ufraw file saved, it quits; so then you can't transfer control to gimp.

Fundamentally, I want to do the following:

specify a set of raw file names to process specify a destination directory
for each raw file:

a. process in ufraw a1. manual crop, etc., if desired a2. save a .ufraw file in the source directory b. process in gimp
b1. manual manipulation if desired b2. automatic resizing and sharpening, etc b3. automatically generate a .jpeg file in the destination directory

With the exception of the input file names and the output directory, (and a1 and b1)
I want everything else done automatically.

I tried using a shell script and having ufraw write a .tif intermediary; however, that has the following problem:

In step b3, I need to get the destination directory name, and I can't figure out how to do that automatically.

A command line arg like "-DDEST_DIR foo" would be great, but I don't see anything in the man page for defining an arbitrary input arg which a script could have access to. An arg in a script can have a fixed default value, but that's not what I need.
One could get really gross and dynamically generate a script with the proper default for the arg before starting gimp, but that's sick :-).

I'm all ears for any suggestions.

Gary

On 09/21/12 16:48, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Gary Aitken wrote:

I'm trying to automate a process, and don't want to have to manually start ufraw. I could start ufraw and use its "gimp" button to transfer control to gimp, but that doesn't do what I want either -- if you tell ufraw to "save" to get the .ufraw file saved, it quits; so then you can't transfer control to gimp.

Fundamentally, I want to do the following:

specify a set of raw file names to process specify a destination directory
for each raw file:

a. process in ufraw a1. manual crop, etc., if desired a2. save a .ufraw file in the source directory b. process in gimp
b1. manual manipulation if desired b2. automatic resizing and sharpening, etc b3. automatically generate a .jpeg file in the destination directory

Is there a reason you can't save .ufraw for each file, then run ufraw in batch mode to create TIFF files for further editing with GIMP?

I'm wondering, because it's something I used to do a lot some 4 or 5 years ago, before darktable was conceived.

Thanks for the suggestion; a variant of that idea may work.

On 09/22/2012 12:17 AM, Gerald wrote: As far as I know, UFRaw is mostly a graphical front-end for the command-line utility DCRaw.

On 09/21/12 16:35, Partha Bagchi wrote:

It is a modified version and so not as up to date as DCRaw which has all the options you need. :)

Unfortunately, I need the gui interface to determine what the parameters should be -- crops and exposure mods, for example.