Dear all,

I have been having difficulty running the following batch script:

; ------------------ ; BEGIN SCRIPT
; ------------------

(define (batch-CUPify pattern image
drawable)

(let* ( (filelist (cadr (file-glob pattern 1))))

(while (not (null? filelist)) (let* (
(filename (car filelist))
(image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filename filename))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image))))

; Erode the image (plug-in-erode 1 image drawable 1 1 0.5 7 128 128)

; Photocopy the image (plug-in-photocopy 1 image drawable 35.51 0.583 0.342 0.200)

; Erode the image (plug-in-erode 1 image drawable 1 1 0.5 7 128 128)

; Flush the display (gimp-displays-flush)

; Save the image (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable filename filename) (gimp-image-delete image))
(set! filelist (cdr filelist)))) )

(script-fu-register "batch-CUPify" "Batch-CUPify"
"Make an image look like it was scanned to PDF by CUP" "Sam Kuper"
"Sam Kuper"
"2007"
"GRAY*"
SF-IMAGE "Image" 0 SF-DRAWABLE "Layer to process" 0)

; ------------------ ; END SCRIPT
; ------------------

I am using GIMP 2.4.1 on Windows XP, and I am trying to run the script by going to the command prompt, changing to a directory full of .png files I want to process with the script, and entering the command:

gimp-2.4 -i -b '(batch-CUPify "*.png")' '(gimp-quit 0)'

This gives me the following messages:

"GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_fri end_backup\*.png)'' failed: Invalid argument

GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_fri end_backup\'(gimp-quit' failed: No such file or directory

GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_fri end_backup\0)'' failed: No such file or directory

No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug-in-script-fu-eval'. batch command: executed successfully."

I would be very grateful for any help you can offer.

Many thanks in advance,

Sam

Dear Sven,

Thank you. However, I still receive the following messages:

"GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_friend_backup\*.png)'' failed: Invalid argument

GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_friend_backup\0)'' failed: No such file or directory

No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug-in-script-fu-eval'. batch command: executed successfully. batch command: executed successfully."

Is this because I need to escape the right parenthesis and double-quote mark somehow?

Many thanks,

Sam

On 08/11/2007, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 15:17 +0000, Sam Kuper wrote:

gimp-2.4 -i -b '(batch-CUPify "*.png")' '(gimp-quit 0)'

The correct syntax to pass multiple batch commands to GIMP 2.4 is:

gimp-2.4 -i -b '(batch-CUPify "*.png")' -b '(gimp-quit 0)'

In other words, only one command per --batch or -b option. But you may use this option several times.

Sven

Dear Sven,

Running the same command in the same directory but using MinGW instead of the Windows XP Command Prompt. This gives me the following messages:

"No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug-in-script-fu-eval'. batch command: experienced an execution error."

I hope this information may be of some help in solving the problem I'm having.

Many thanks again for your help,

Sam

On 08/11/2007, Sam Kuper wrote:

Dear Sven,

Thank you. However, I still receive the following messages:

"GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_friend_backup\*.png)'' failed: Invalid argument

GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_friend_backup\0)'' failed: No such file or directory

No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug-in-script-fu-eval'.
batch command: executed successfully. batch command: executed successfully."

Is this because I need to escape the right parenthesis and double-quote mark somehow?

Many thanks,

Sam

On 08/11/2007, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 15:17 +0000, Sam Kuper wrote:

gimp-2.4 -i -b '(batch-CUPify "*.png")' '(gimp-quit 0)'

The correct syntax to pass multiple batch commands to GIMP 2.4 is:

gimp-2.4 -i -b '(batch-CUPify "*.png")' -b '(gimp-quit 0)'

In other words, only one command per --batch or -b option. But you may use this option several times.

Sven

Dear Saul,

Thanks for your help. I was eventually successful in running my batch GIMP script from the Windows XP command line, by using either of the following commands:

gimp-2.4 -i -b "(batch-CUPify \"D:\\Documents and Settings\\spk30\\Desktop\\alison_sl1_dear_friend_backup\\*\") (gimp-quit 0)"

gimp-2.4 -i -b "(batch-CUPify \"*.png\") (gimp-quit 0)"

and altering the script to read thus:

; Batch apply the CUPify script

(define (batch-CUPify pattern)

(let* ( (filelist (cadr (file-glob pattern 1))))

(while (not (null? filelist)) (let* (
(filename (car filelist))
(image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filename filename))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image))))

; Erode the image (plug-in-erode 1 image drawable 1 1 0.5 7 128 128)

; Photocopy the image (plug-in-photocopy 1 image drawable 35.51 0.583 0.342 0.200)

; Erode the image (plug-in-erode 1 image drawable 1 1 0.5 7 128 128)

; Flush the display (gimp-displays-flush)

; Save the image (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable filename filename) (gimp-image-delete image))
(set! filelist (cdr filelist)))) )

(script-fu-register "batch-CUPify" "Batch-CUPify"
"Make an image look like it was scanned to PDF by CUP" "Sam Kuper"
"Sam Kuper"
"2007"
"GRAY*"
SF-IMAGE "Image" 0 SF-DRAWABLE "Layer to process" 0) ; End script

Many thanks for the help,

Sam Kuper

On 10/11/2007, saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com < saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com> wrote:

I do not believe that single-quoting a command line argument in Windows works the same as BASH (Linux). Try using double-quotes and escape any double-quotes which appear in your argument:

gimp -i -b "(batch-CUPify \"*.png\")" -b "(gimp-quit 0)"

If you include directories in your path, also escape your backslashes:

gimp -i -b "(batch-CUPify \"D:\\Documents and Settings\\spk30\\Desktop\\alison_sl1_dear_friend_backup\\*.png\")" -b "(gimp-quit 0)"

You may need to experiment as I do not run Windows and have no way of testing the commands.

I am using GIMP 2.4.1 on Windows XP, and I am trying to run the script

by

going to the command prompt, changing to a directory full of .png files

I

want to process with the script, and entering the command:

gimp-2.4 -i -b '(batch-CUPify "*.png")' '(gimp-quit 0)'

This gives me the following messages:

"GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_fri end_backup\*.png)'' failed: Invalid argument

GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_fri end_backup\'(gimp-quit' failed: No such file or directory

GIMP-Error: Opening 'D:\Documents and Settings\spk30\Desktop\alison_sl1_dear_fri end_backup\0)'' failed: No such file or directory

No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug-in-script-fu-eval'.
batch command: executed successfully."

I would be very grateful for any help you can offer.

Many thanks in advance,

Sam