Hi:

I need to process upward of 700 pictures through GIMP with a simple workflow:

- Open a picture file - Export it as a JPG file

which enables these files to be uploaded in a custom database (programmed with Cold Fusion - not by me!) which only accepts the JPG format.

Can anybody give me some ideas or a script to do that?

GIMP is not scriptable with the MAC Script Editor, and it seems only some Unix-level commands using the Terminal app will work.

Thanks in advance, as this would save me a lot of hours doing this manually!

Gerard

If I had to do this? Not Gimp, use ImageMagick. see https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php

Can be a simple as.

magick mogrify -format jpg *.png

will convert a folder full of png images to jpegs.

On the other hand, if you want to see each image before exporting, the attached rough-n-ready script exports to a 90 quality jpeg. You need to specify the destination but only once per session. Unzip, pop in your plugins folder (it is python) check that it is executable.

rich: www.gimp-forum.net

Thank you very much...
I may try your suggestion.

I still advise ImageMagick for 700 files however as a demo two scripts *****.scm which go in your Gimp profile scripts folder (no need to make these executable)

sg-sequential-edit.scm and quick-export-jpeg.scm zipped them both up and attached.

A quick video demo of these in use with keyboard shortcuts which reduces open-export-close to two key presses.

https://youtu.be/VACp2KevY1A