Well, I'm not using GIMP only to detect file formats, but to perform image transformations such as midtone adjustment and unsharp mask, where I believe and hope GIMP is an appropriate tool to use. I want however script-fu to do the whole job, and that includes detecting image types such as rgb and grayscale for a vast set of image formats.

If anyone knows has alternative way of doing this in GIMP, let me know.

Thanks anyway.

Cheers

----Ursprungligt meddelande---- Från: sven@gimp.org
Datum: 2006/09/26 10:30
Till: "Magnus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hellstr=F6m?=" Kopia:
Ärende: Re: Ang: Re: [Gimp-user] Base type of a wmf image

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:20 +0200, Magnus Hellström wrote:

So this behaviour of the wmf file loader can be considered as a bug?

No, it counts as a missing feature perhaps.

Is it something that will be taken care of in future releases?

Unlikely, unless somone provides a patch. The WMF loader plug-in is very
simple. It uses libwmf to load the file and as far as I can see, the libwmf library always returns an RGBA buffer. So you might even have to
change the library first.

I'm stuck to Gimp, so ImageMagick is not an alternative.

Frankly speaking, GIMP seems like the wrong tool for the job. It was not
designed to detect file formats.

Sven