Eckhard M. Jäger

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Photoshop PSD support for Gnome

Wednesday, 17. December 2008, 19:07:22

Today i get a real amazing message from Jan Dudek. He started developing a PixBuf load for Photoshop PSD files for the Gnome Linux Desktop. That means PSD support for any Gnome application like the image viewer EOG, the document viewer Evince and in combination a thumbnailer for *.psd or *.pdd files for Nautilus too.

Nautilus Thumbnailer update

Thursday, 20. December 2007, 15:46:31

PSD, image editor, xcf, preview ...

I updated my Thumbnailer script that uses Gimp to create thumbnails of Photoshop (*.psd), Gimp (*.xcf) and other unsupported images for the Gnome file manager Nautilus.
The script runs much faster now because it is rewritten as a Gimp Python plugin (thanx to David Gowers for this excellent idea) and so Gimp mustn't opened or closed for any image.

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Generating Thumbnails for Nautilus using Gimp

Saturday, 1. December 2007, 21:54:34

PSD, image editor, xcf, preview ...

When browsing through directories and searching for an image it would often be helpful getting an thumbnail of an image. But Nautilus the files manager of the Gnome Desktop didn't support many images formats like Photoshop's PSD, Silicon Graphics RGB or Gimp's XCF files.
I created a Thumbnailer Gimp Python Plugin (copy it into "~/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins" and make sure it is executable) that generates thumbnails for Nautilus using Gimp.
That's the first version (of something like this) which means:
* No automatic thumbnail generation, you have to call it via Nautilus Scripts or Nautilus Actions like:

gimp-console  -i -n -f -d -s -b '(python-fu-thumbnailer RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "/your/path/here")'

or for Nautilus Actions:

gimp-console -i -n -f -d -s -b '(python-fu-thumbnailer RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "%d")'

* Didn't running inside of Gimp (toolbox)
* "Browse Images..." in Gimps image window isn't implemented yet
* no visual feedback at the moment how much thumbnails are generated

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