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		<title>Support (new threads)</title>
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		<description>Threads in the forum category &quot;Support&quot; - Support for any problems installing or running Phatch</description>
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				<title>lossless save after lossless rotate?</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-347479/lossless-save-after-lossless-rotate</link>
				<description>Is there a way to save the file losslessly after applying a lossless action?</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Edwardr</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>839812</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>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.</p> <p>Is there a way to apply the lossless rotation and losslessly save the result?</p> 
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				<title>File Name: invalid syntax</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-338498/file-name:invalid-syntax</link>
				<description>error in spanish language</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>xabilo</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>797155</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>When I try to save a file whit a number appended, (for example: image2.jpg), I get the error: File Name: Invalid syntax (&lt;nombre del file&gt;, line 1)<br /> Is it a bug? if so, how could I fix it?.</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> 
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				<title>Color to Alpha works strange</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-331703/color-to-alpha-works-strange</link>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Nitisara</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>775678</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I convert ICO files to PNG and choose &quot;Color to Alpha&quot; to make black color transparent (by the way, it is bad that image saver does not respect original ICO transparency values).<br /> When image is saved, black color becomes 100% transparent, but other colors become semi-transparent to different degrees. Am I doing something wrong?</p> 
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				<guid>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-324476</guid>
				<title>File Format of Intermediate Images</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-324476/file-format-of-intermediate-images</link>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>sc911</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>70841</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Hello *,</p> <p>does Patch use any kind of intermediate images between all single steps? If so, what kind of file format is used?</p> <p>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?</p> <p>Regards<br /> sc911</p> 
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				<title>Splitting Images</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-324473/splitting-images</link>
				<description>How to make two Images from one</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>sc911</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>70841</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Hello *,</p> <p>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.<br /> 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.<br /> But:can this be done unsing only one script?</p> <p>Regards<br /> sc911</p> 
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				<title>EXIF tags not keeped when resizing image</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-307977/exif-tags-not-keeped-when-resizing-image</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>lkoP</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>709632</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Hello,</p> <p>I have created a simple phatch action list like this:<br /> - resize (to 1024x1024 keeping proportion)<br /> - save (to _phatch folder)</p> <p>It works but it seems that some EXIF metadata is not copied from the initial file to the processed one. In particular the &quot;Exif.Canon.0x0095&quot; one which I use to access to the Lens information (obviously on a Canon camera).</p> <p>Is this a normal behaviour?</p> <p>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).</p> <p>ps : phatch is a nice tool, thanks for the job done.</p> 
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				<title>Problem installing linux opensuse Phatch</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-305312/problem-installing-linux-opensuse-phatch</link>
				<description>Problem launching Phatch</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>LaurentRoland</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>700150</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Hello everyone</p> <p>I just installed opensuse Phatch in and nothing happens when I run<br /> I find the following line when I run from the console:</p> <div class="code"> <pre><code>surcouf@linux-r7nt:~&gt; phatch Traceback (most recent call last): File &quot;/usr/bin/phatch&quot;, line 10, in &lt;module&gt; import phatch File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/__init__.py&quot;, line 25, in &lt;module&gt; init_config_paths() File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/core/config.py&quot;, line 225, in init_config_paths from lib.fonts import set_font_cache File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/lib/fonts.py&quot;, line 53, in &lt;module&gt; sys.exit(_('Please install &quot;%s&quot; first.') % 'locate') NameError: name '_' is not defined</code></pre></div> <p>Does anyone see what's going on?</p> 
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				<guid>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-303860</guid>
				<title>Saved action files don&#039;t load at startup nor available in recently used</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-303860/saved-action-files-don-t-load-at-startup-nor-available-in-re</link>
				<description>Each time I launch Phatch I need to manually load the action script file I want to use.</description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>GrouchyGaijin</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>607894</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>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.</p> <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Phatch 27.2</p> <p>Has anyone else had this happen? Is there a fix for it?</p> <p>Thank you,</p> <p>GG</p> 
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				<title>Cannot create droplet under windows</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-301656/cannot-create-droplet-under-windows</link>
				<description>Property &#039;&lt;unknown&gt;.Targetpath&#039; can not be set?</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>pyperdown</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>684952</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Actionlist (scale-&gt;save) works fine interactively, but I'd like to set up a droplet on a user's windows system.</p> <p>I've not run into this on Linux, so wondering if I botched something with the install&#8230;</p> 
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				<title>using old phatch files</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-300997/using-old-phatch-files</link>
				<description>after upgrade, cannot use old files.</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>earrame</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>600695</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>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 &quot;Sorry, the action list seems incompatible with Phatch 0.2.7.&quot; Is there any way to recover these files?</p> 
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				<title>Working with .svg files</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-299795/working-with-svg-files</link>
				<description>trying to desaturate .svg files</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>pissnaround</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>680514</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>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?</p> <p>thanks</p> 
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				<title>Process JPG only</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-295313/process-jpg-only</link>
				<description>How to specify filetypes</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>jmumby</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>664396</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I am using the following from an action i created but it trys to convert everything in the folder. How do I specify to ONLY covert jpg?</p> <div class="code"> <pre><code>phatch -cv resize.phatch &quot;/path/to/folder name&quot;</code></pre></div> <p>thanks</p> 
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				<title>JPEG without loss: cut 2 pixel from the height of a pic</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-283032/jpeg-without-loss:cut-2-pixel-from-the-height-of-a-pic</link>
				<description>I&#039;m trying to cut 2 pixel from an image.</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>matrix866</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>617378</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I'm trying to cut an horizontal line of 2 pixel from the height(from the bottom) of some images using these parameters:</p> <img src="http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/5028/phatch.png" alt="phatch.png" class="image" /> <p>Selecting only 1 pixel cutted from the bottom I get cutted a line of 2 pixel from the height and a line of 1 pixel cutted from the width! I don't know why this happens???</p> <p>I need to cut images from 642x480 pixel to 640x480 pixel: how can i do?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> 
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				<title>TIF compression does not work + other newbie questions</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-280804/tif-compression-does-not-work-other-newbie-questions</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>frankbi</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>609047</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I put my first action together: saving a JPG camera image to a b/w tif file with g4 compression (which is &quot;CCITT Fax 4&quot; compression in IrfanView, isn't it?) to get really small file sizes.</p> <p>After different troubles (forgot to restart Windows after setting path environmental variable and had problems with phatch starting from batch file: &quot;Error 6 Handle invalid&quot;) I got my first picture converted. But Irfan says my file has no compression. The size is actually about 1M. With Irfan's CCITT Fax 4 it is about 80K.</p> <p>What did I do wrong?</p> <p>Log says:<br /> &quot;Warning 0:Subprocess &quot;tiffcp&quot;<br /> input:<br /> ['D:\\Config\\-Standalone\\-path\\tiffcp.exe', 'c:\\dokume~1\\arbeit\\lokale~1\\temp\\tmp_avlow', '-c', u'g4', u'D:\\Finanzen\\2009\\PB015485.tiff']<br /> output:<br /> TIFFOpen Error: -c: Cannot open</p> <p>Action:{'fields': {'As': u'tiff',<br /> 'File Name': u'&lt;filename&gt;',<br /> 'In': u'&lt;folder&gt;',<br /> 'JPEG Quality': u'85',<br /> 'JPEG Size Maximum': '0&#160;kb',<br /> 'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10&#160;kb',<br /> 'Metadata': 'yes',<br /> 'PNG Optimize': u'yes',<br /> 'Resolution': u'&lt;dpi&gt;',<br /> 'Show Type Options': 'no',<br /> 'TIFF Compression': u'g4',<br /> '<span style="text-decoration: underline;">enabled</span>': 'yes'},<br /> 'label': 'Save'}</p> <p>None<br /> *&quot;</p> <p>Python says:<br /> &quot;Error: Directory Makernote with 18761 entries considered invalid; not read.<br /> Warning: Failed to read Makernote, rc = 6&quot;</p> <p>I use Phatch 0.2.7 with Python 2.5 (Dependencies py25 package) in Windows XP SP3.</p> <p>I also wonder how to get/install exiftran if I want to apply lossless rotation for windows. I didn't find any Windows binaries. Phatch says: &quot;you need to install 'exiftran' first&quot;.</p> <p>And how do I get rid of the three windows confirming &quot;Drag &amp; Drop&quot;, &quot;File Manager&quot; and &quot;Ready!&quot; (with &quot;Show log&quot; etc.) (or similar, translating from german) to get batch actions without any queries? :)</p> <p>Phatch seems to be very promising as GUI besides command lines of ImageMagick et al. Thanks for Your work.</p> 
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				<title>using phatch 0.2.4.1 I cannot rename the file according to date and hour</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-272213/using-phatch-0-2-4-1-i-cannot-rename-the-file-according-to-d</link>
				<description>I used phatch 0.1.9.7 to rename my photos with no problem. As I upgraded, now I receive the message</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>jetnow</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>580673</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Error 0:Arquivo indisponível para abrir: /home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:<br /> Unable extract variables from file:/home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:<br /> Key must be of type string</p> <p>Traceback (most recent call last):<br /> File &quot;/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/api.py&quot;, line 489, in get_photo<br /> photo = pil.Photo(info_file, info_not_file)<br /> File &quot;/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py&quot;, line 464, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">init</span><br /> layer.image)<br /> File &quot;/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py&quot;, line 214, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">init</span><br /> raise Exception(message)<br /> Exception: Unable extract variables from file:/home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:<br /> Key must be of type string</p> 
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				<title>Images optimized for web sites</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-260101/images-optimized-for-web-sites</link>
				<description>What&#039;s actions sequence and parameters do you sggest to obtain imagis optimized for web publishing?
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				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>I'm developing a website based on photos.<br /> I need to optimize loading time and I need to elaborate many photos so I'm using this sw.</p> 
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				<title>Saved Action Lists script &quot;Repo&quot;?</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-259691/saved-action-lists-script-repo</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>Is there a site or area/repo with a collection of user submitted Action List .phatch files?</p> <p>I am sure what I am creating has been done before and not a fan of reinventing the wheel. Plus nice to see what others are doing with it.</p> 
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				<title>Difficulty installing Phatch</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-253226/difficulty-installing-phatch</link>
				<description>After running it for a while, it will not anymore.</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>Hello,</p> <p>I am unsure if this is a good place to ask for assistance, but I am having difficulties running Phatch.<br /> In fact, at the moment Phatch does not run anymore at all. The application is there, under Graphics, however when clicked, the hourglass shows for about a minute, then disappears and nothing happens. One day it just stopped running.</p> <p>I checked in System Monitor and see no Phatch process.<br /> I have tried un-installing it, then re-installing, both through the Ubuntu Software Center, and through the Phatch website, getting the Debian packet, and nothing gives.<br /> Now I resize my pictures one by one with Gimp&#8230; no more batch conversions :-(</p> <p>Could you offer any help?<br /> I am relatively new to Ubuntu; have Karmic Koala.<br /> If you need some more info to start troubleshooting, please let me know.</p> <p>Thank you, I appreciate the potential help.<br /> MuccaPazza</p> 
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				<title>change resolution preserving subfolder tree structure</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-249810/change-resolution-preserving-subfolder-tree-structure</link>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>danjde</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>370842</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Hi Support!</p> <p>I'm writing because I try to change the resolution of many different png files contained in subfolders from a main, while <strong>preserving the original structure tree</strong> and <strong>overwriting</strong> files modified</p> <p>is it possible whith Phatch?</p> <p>many many thanks!!</p> <p>davide<br /> italy</p> 
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				<title>Phatch not batching in Ubuntu 10.04</title>
				<link>http://photobatch.wikidot.com/forum/t-249218/phatch-not-batching-in-ubuntu-10-04</link>
				<description>Trying to save TIFF files as jpg</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>This Phatch program looks really good! But, so far when I've tried to batch 94 TIFF's as jpg's I always end up with only one jpg. I tried at least 3 times now. Even uninstalled and reinstalled Phatch.</p> <p>Is this an operator error (me) or a bug?</p> <p>Thanks</p> 
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