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lossless save after lossless rotate?: Re: lossless save after lossless rotate?

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:15:57 +0000

File a bug and attach a zip file with an action list and example image:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/phatch

lossless save after lossless rotate?: lossless save after lossless rotate?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:23:46 +0000

I am trying to convert to Linux as much as possible, and I am excited about using Phatch in my photo processing (I am an amateur photographer). One of the steps in my workflow is to run a batch action on all my downloaded photos to do a lossless autorotate based on exif orientation. Doing this in IrfanView Thumbnails results in a file size exactly the same as the original (i.e. no loss in quality). With Phatch, I assumed I would not add a Save action after the lossless rotation because this would result in a loss in quality. But running the lossless rotation action by itself results in a file with 0 bytes. So I added a Save metadata action, but that still resulted in a 0 byte file. Adding a Save action gives me an output file that is rotated, but the quality setting in the Save action results is applied to the saved file, with resulting loss.

Is there a way to apply the lossless rotation and losslessly save the result?

Unable to start phatch in Windows 7 x64: Re: Unable to start phatch in Windows 7 x64

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:11:50 +0000

can I test the program? I can't get it to go either.

File Name: invalid syntax: File Name: invalid syntax

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:30:28 +0000

When I try to save a file whit a number appended, (for example: image2.jpg), I get the error: File Name: Invalid syntax (, line 1)
Is it a bug? if so, how could I fix it?.

Thanks in advance.

Color to Alpha works strange: Color to Alpha works strange

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:54:04 +0000

I convert ICO files to PNG and choose "Color to Alpha" to make black color transparent (by the way, it is bad that image saver does not respect original ICO transparency values).
When image is saved, black color becomes 100% transparent, but other colors become semi-transparent to different degrees. Am I doing something wrong?

File Format of Intermediate Images: Re: File Format of Intermediate Images

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:25:43 +0000

The images are processed in memory, so they are only written to a file with a save action.

Splitting Images: Re: Splitting Images

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:24:02 +0000

This is not possible atm.

File Format of Intermediate Images: File Format of Intermediate Images

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:35:54 +0000

Hello *,

does Patch use any kind of intermediate images between all single steps? If so, what kind of file format is used?

So, to say it the other way round: If the input file is an JPEG, will every single action produce a new JPEG with all its quality loss?

Regards
sc911

Splitting Images: Splitting Images

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:32:21 +0000

Hello *,

is it possible to split an image into two? So I would like to resize a batch of images to one size and then save this images as two parts one for the left half and one for the right halft.
It can be done by running three different scripts: the first one does the resizing, the other ones are croping the canvas using left and right align.
But:can this be done unsing only one script?

Regards
sc911

EXIF tags not keeped when resizing image: EXIF tags not keeped when resizing image

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:12:58 +0000

Hello,

I have created a simple phatch action list like this:
- resize (to 1024x1024 keeping proportion)
- save (to _phatch folder)

It works but it seems that some EXIF metadata is not copied from the initial file to the processed one. In particular the "Exif.Canon.0x0095" one which I use to access to the Lens information (obviously on a Canon camera).

Is this a normal behaviour?

I'm using Debian squeeze version 0.2.7, and I have the same problem when reading the tags with the phatch Inspector or another tool (geeqie for example).

ps : phatch is a nice tool, thanks for the job done.

using old phatch files: Re: using old phatch files

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:00:26 +0000

Do you know how to get the actions lists to open automatically or at least show up in the recently used list?

I used to have a recently used list, but now - all of a sudden (really all of a sudden) - it is gone. Each time I want to run an action I need to open the action file manually.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and writing to you because I didn't get an answer either.

Thank you

Problem installing linux opensuse Phatch: Re: Problem installing linux opensuse Phatch

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:08:19 +0000

Wow, I found what was wrong with "Phatch"
I deleted the "underscore" (_) too, which apparently annoyed my system in the file "fonts.py"at line 53, referenced above.
And it's works …

Problem installing linux opensuse Phatch: Problem installing linux opensuse Phatch

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Hello everyone

I just installed opensuse Phatch in and nothing happens when I run
I find the following line when I run from the console:

surcouf@linux-r7nt:~> phatch Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/phatch", line 10, in  import phatch File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/__init__.py", line 25, in  init_config_paths() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/core/config.py", line 225, in init_config_paths from lib.fonts import set_font_cache File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/lib/fonts.py", line 53, in  sys.exit(_('Please install "%s" first.') % 'locate') NameError: name '_' is not defined

Does anyone see what's going on?

Saved action files don't load at startup nor available in recently used: Saved action files don't load at startup nor available in recently used

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:06:11 +0000

This started a couple of weeks ago. Prior to that I could choose the action file I wanted from Recently Used. Now each time I want to run an action I need to navigate to where the file is saved and open it before it will load into Phatch.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Phatch 27.2

Has anyone else had this happen? Is there a fix for it?

Thank you,

using old phatch files: Re: using old phatch files

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:07:22 +0000

Because I got no reply, I opened the old phatch action lists and remade new ones by hand to match the old ones. Too bad there wasn't an easier way but that worked. I like some of the new features.

Cannot create droplet under windows: Cannot create droplet under windows

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:53:06 +0000

Actionlist (scale->save) works fine interactively, but I'd like to set up a droplet on a user's windows system.

I've not run into this on Linux, so wondering if I botched something with the install…

using old phatch files: Re: using old phatch files

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:39:49 +0000

Or is there a way to download an older version of phatch?

using old phatch files: using old phatch files

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:01:22 +0000

I recently upgraded my OS and phatch was upgraded along with it. now the phatch files that I had set up to do specific jobs no longer are working saying "Sorry, the action list seems incompatible with Phatch 0.2.7." Is there any way to recover these files?

Working with .svg files: Re: Working with .svg files

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:58:32 +0000

No. Phatch can only process bitmaps (not vectors), although it can import vectors (eg svg), but immediately converts them to bitmap.

Working with .svg files: Working with .svg files

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:13:01 +0000

I'm new to Phatch and I tried this with both the Mac and Linux versions. I want to desaturate a number of .svg files but what seems to happen is, Phatch converts them to .png files and they lost their transparency. Is there a way around this?

thanks