Re: Ecomment.C in Gimp 2.4.5

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:04:32 +0000, rich wrote:

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:31:41 +0000, magicus wrote:

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:43:55 +1000, shogun <shogun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Could anybody advise me how to install ecomment.c in Ubuntu Gimp 2.4.5
it keeps asking for gimptools which do not seem to exist.

I have several thousand pictures that I need to change the comment in
and doing it one at a time is just not feasible.

many thanks
Keith bennett

For Gimp 2.6.6 I had to install: libgimp2.0-dev via Synaptic. Look for
something similar and install it.

ciao,
f

gimp-tool should be part of your gimp installation.

These are the directions I picked up from a forum

<quote>
......You also need the build-essentials package installed to compile C
code.

gimptool-2.0 --install /home/steve/Desktop/kaleidoscope.c


Change to the actual location of the file. Important: run the command as
a regular user, not as root.

<un-quote>

So its make sure that any dependencies are satisfied. Copy the .c file
into your Desktop folder, then apply the above, changing names as
required.

using Mepis8 and Gimp 2.6.6

sorry I've lost the original post so I'm tacking onto the end.

I've had a look at the ecomment plugin, a bit concerned as it is somewhat
old. It compiles ok and works, puts a new item at the bottom of the image
menu but does not do much more than the regular comments tab in image
properties. If you have a lot of files, it is going to be very tedious.

For working with a lot of files and if you are not afraid of command
lines, you might want to look at imagemagick - if it is not already
installed look in the Ubuntu repo.

Just a note of caution, you can do serious damage to your images so make
a temp folder, copy a few .jpg images and run some trials until you are
sure of what you are doing.

a couple of commands to try. navigate to to the temp folder then use

mogrify -strip *.jpg

this will strip out all exif info from all the files.

mogrify -comment "all new text" *.jpg

this will add the same comment to all the images.

best of luck

--
rich
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