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

Thanks in advance.

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

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

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.

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.

Hi @ all!
First of all: Thank you very much for creating such a intuitive, usable and well-designed software!

As far as I can see, phatch ist able to process a bunch of files by one action list.
Having to create two seperate action lists for each image orientation and having to select the right images among those in my folder led me to the question: Why can't phatch determine, whether the image ist portrait/landscape oriented and process the action list belonging to this orientation?

If you generalize, you get the following two possible ways to do conditioned batch processing:

1) MULTIPLE ACTION LISTS
Explained by an example:
You set up some action lists.
You set up conditions to be checked each time before processing the next image.
You associate the result of condition checks to an action list, that should then be performed on the current image.
Yet, if there are many conditions on just one parameter, there is much redundancy, because other steps in all actions lists are the same. Additionally, there is the danger of creating more or less condition results than action lists - this should be avoided by the software itself.

2) ONE ACTION LIST
At each step, you can define one or more conditions under which it is activated or under which it should have an certain value.
You get problems, if you want apply very different actions on few conditions. There ist much redundant work for the user.

Conditions could be: File size, Image orientation, color space,…after all: each property of an image you can read out by software.

I hope you understand the things i suggest above; if not, feel free to ask.

What do you think about this? I thnik this would enormously extend the possibilities of Phatch and still preserved the thought of creating a image batch processing software.

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

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 <module> import phatch File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/phatch/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> 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 <module> sys.exit(_('Please install "%s" first.') % 'locate') NameError: name '_' is not defined

Does anyone see what's going on?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Phatch 27.2

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

Thank you,

GG

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

thanks

phatch -cv resize.phatch /path/to/pictures/*.JPG

I see there is a -o option to overwrite existing images is it possible to not replace existing images. I run the above and just seems to overwrite existing images anyway! I have this running as a cron job and just want it to resize new images in a folder. I have over 1000 images in the source folder so this chews up the resources.

cheers

Ubuntu 10.10

twitter.com/profstiw

As a temporary solution, I think that Phatch remembers the setting from when you use the GUI. So set the extensions in the GUI to jpeg only and see if Phatch uses jpeg only when used from the command line.

phatch -cv resize.phatch "/path/to/folder name"

thanks

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???

I need to cut images from 642x480 pixel to 640x480 pixel: how can i do?

Thanks!

http://photobatch.stani.be/download/package/Setup.exe

After different troubles (forgot to restart Windows after setting path environmental variable and had problems with phatch starting from batch file: "Error 6 Handle invalid") 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.

What did I do wrong?

Log says:
"Warning 0:Subprocess "tiffcp"
input:
['D:\\Config\\-Standalone\\-path\\tiffcp.exe', 'c:\\dokume~1\\arbeit\\lokale~1\\temp\\tmp_avlow', '-c', u'g4', u'D:\\Finanzen\\2009\\PB015485.tiff']
output:
TIFFOpen Error: -c: Cannot open

Action:{'fields': {'As': u'tiff',
'File Name': u'<filename>',
'In': u'<folder>',
'JPEG Quality': u'85',
'JPEG Size Maximum': '0 kb',
'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10 kb',
'Metadata': 'yes',
'PNG Optimize': u'yes',
'Resolution': u'<dpi>',
'Show Type Options': 'no',
'TIFF Compression': u'g4',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Save'}

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Python says:
"Error: Directory Makernote with 18761 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Failed to read Makernote, rc = 6"

I use Phatch 0.2.7 with Python 2.5 (Dependencies py25 package) in Windows XP SP3.

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: "you need to install 'exiftran' first".

And how do I get rid of the three windows confirming "Drag & Drop", "File Manager" and "Ready!" (with "Show log" etc.) (or similar, translating from german) to get batch actions without any queries? :)

Phatch seems to be very promising as GUI besides command lines of ImageMagick et al. Thanks for Your work.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/api.py", line 489, in get_photo
photo = pil.Photo(info_file, info_not_file)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 464, in init
layer.image)
File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/core/pil.py", line 214, in init
raise Exception(message)
Exception: Unable extract variables from file:/home/je/Desktop/0-2010-09-20_15-54-24.jpg:
Key must be of type string

David

If they are of general use and high quality they might be included in the next release. I guess you are aware of the 'Action List>Open Library' in the Phatch menu.

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.

Sorry I only saw your post now, couldn't find the "subscribe to thread" option..

I tried your first command, the output was as follows:

phatch is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
binutils-static
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

The phatch icon is now again in the tray (it had disappeared), but it still will not start. When I click its icon, there is a new window that appears, "Starting Phatch PHoto bATCH Processor) but then nothing happens.

I then tried to launch it from the terminal, the output:
christoph@christoph-laptop:~$ phatch
Sorry, your settings seem corrupt. Please delete "/home/christoph/.config/phatch/settings.py". Also check if your hard disk not full.

My disk is not full or even close. It was at some point but not anymore.
I went into system monitor/processes, I do not see phatch.

I did delete the above mentioned file: everything works again :-) I hope it lasts.
Thank you again for your help. Once you start using this program, it is hard to live without!!

If Phatch doesn't still start afterwards, please start phatch from a terminal and paste the output here:
$ phatch

I am unsure if this is a good place to ask for assistance, but I am having difficulties running Phatch.
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.

I checked in System Monitor and see no Phatch process.
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.
Now I resize my pictures one by one with Gimp… no more batch conversions :-(

Could you offer any help?
I am relatively new to Ubuntu; have Karmic Koala.
If you need some more info to start troubleshooting, please let me know.

Thank you, I appreciate the potential help.
MuccaPazza

A relative width option for the watermark, relative to global picture, on top of the offset option would be very nice.

Thank you so much. It is working perfectly now. So I guess it was an endian issue eh?
Anyway, I really appreciate it - I will put it to use this weekend and report any issues I find.. but so far so good! I love the interface and the ability to do multiple actions. I also really appreciate the precompiled version - I always somehow get stuck when I have to compile stuff myself with command lines.

thank you!!!

I think this is fixed. As part of today's pre-release, I've upgrade PIL to 1.1.7 (thanks to a contribution from Russell Owen). I can convert bmps to pngs without going though the X-Ray machine. Check it out. You can open the APP dmg and run phatch from the DMG without changing anything. If you're happy, copy Phatch.app to your /Applications directory.

http://clanmills.com/Phatch28-prerelease/PhatchAPP-20100701-rmills-imac.dmg
http://clanmills.com/Phatch28-prerelease/PhatchPKG-20100701-rmills-imac.dmg

Let me know how this works for you. If this isn't fixed, please email your BMPs.

Robin
http://clanmills.com

I'll try to look at this before I go on vacation. I want to get the latest (and greatest) Phatch 0.28 pre-release out this evening and I'll try to squeeze this in. It looks to me like an endian issue. Mac's used to be PPC/big-endian and of course they're now mostly Intel /little endian. I have an elderly powerbook/PPC Mac and a super-dooper intel iMac.

The other thought is that I think pixels can be written in the BMP as RGB or BGR (there's something in the 56 byte header to say which. I don't think I've ever encountered a BGR/BMP - maybe yours is the first. And your suggestion that the color table's wrong (if it's a palletized image). Or the pixels are upside down! Lots of interesting possibilities.

Let me run this on a couple of machines and get back to you.

Thank you for saying nice things about Phatch. I agree with you. Stani's concept in Phatch is quite excellent and that's why it's a privilege for me to contribute to the project. Thank you for taking the time to bring this to our attention.

Robin
http://clanmills.com

He might be away, so don't expect an answer immediately. He likes feedback anyway, so he will appreciate your email.

I'm writing because I try to change the resolution of many different png files contained in subfolders from a main, while preserving the original structure tree and overwriting files modified

is it possible whith Phatch?

many many thanks!!

davide
italy

I left '<filename>' as it is.

{'actions': [{'fields': {'As': u'jpg',
'File Name': u'<filename>',
'In': u'/cliff/Desktop/Temp',
'JPEG Quality': u'100',
'JPEG Size Maximum': u'5000 kb',
'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10 kb',
'Metadata': 'yes',
'PNG Optimize': 'no',
'Resolution': u'300',
'Show Type Options': 'no',
'TIFF Compression': u'<compression>',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Save'}],
'description': '',
'version': '0.2.7'}

Thanks again!

You get only one image because you use a fixed filename.

Replace 'Gospel Pioneers Test' with '<filename>'

Warning 0:YCbCr has been converted to RGB to save as JPEG.

Action:{'fields': {'As': u'jpg',
'File Name': u'Gospel Pioneers Test',
'In': u'<desktop>/phatch/Test',
'JPEG Quality': u'100',
'JPEG Size Maximum': u'5000 kb',
'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10 kb',
'Metadata': 'yes',
'PNG Optimize': 'no',
'Resolution': u'300',
'Show Type Options': 'no',
'TIFF Compression': u'<compression>',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Save'}

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Warning 1:YCbCr has been converted to RGB to save as JPEG.

Action:{'fields': {'As': u'jpg',
'File Name': u'Gospel Pioneers Test',
'In': u'<desktop>/phatch/Test',
'JPEG Quality': u'100',
'JPEG Size Maximum': u'5000 kb',
'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10 kb',
'Metadata': 'yes',
'PNG Optimize': 'no',
'Resolution': u'300',
'Show Type Options': 'no',
'TIFF Compression': u'<compression>',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Save'}

None
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Warning 2:YCbCr has been converted to RGB to save as JPEG.

Action:{'fields': {'As': u'jpg',
'File Name': u'Gospel Pioneers Test',
'In': u'<desktop>/phatch/Test',
'JPEG Quality': u'100',
'JPEG Size Maximum': u'5000 kb',
'JPEG Size Tolerance': '10 kb',
'Metadata': 'yes',
'PNG Optimize': 'no',
'Resolution': u'300',
'Show Type Options': 'no',
'TIFF Compression': u'<compression>',
'enabled': 'yes'},
'label': 'Save'}

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I tried with the BMP you provided. Don't worry. I am sure Robin can fix this.

Is this an operator error (me) or a bug?

Thanks

Quick question: Did you test with the same image I posted? Or a different BMP? Maybe the BMP's i have have different header structure? If not can you try with the same bmp?

thanks for all the help, I love this tool and cant wait to use it, it is extremely powerful.