I give in a very simple Action List: the only items are scale and save. Upon executing the window suddenly closes, and this is reproducible… meaning I effectively cannot use Phatch. I decided to run it from the terminal to get some feedback:

 ~$ phatch Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 524, in on_left_down self.close_popup() File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 462, in close_popup self.set_form_field_value(self.popup_item, value_as_string) File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 273, in set_form_field_value field.get_size(IMAGE_TEST_INFO, 100, label, AttributeError: 'FileSizeField' object has no attribute 'get_size' Error: Directory Unknown with 1546 entries considered invalid; not read. python: tiffcomposite.cpp:1141: virtual uint32_t Exiv2::Internal::TiffDirectory::doWrite(Exiv2::Internal::IoWrapper&, Exiv2::ByteOrder, int32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t&): Assertion `sv == d' failed. Aborted ~$ 

The first 8 lines, up to and including AttributeError are produced when specifying the JPEG quality.
The last four lines are caused upon execution. Note that I specified an absolute path under the "save" action item, because I would like to process 80 GB in over 200 directories; which I don't want on the same partition as the source, since it wouldn't fit. It might well work without specifying an absolute path beyond what phatch specifies; but I need to specify a different partition.

The image object is of PIL:
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

The photo object is a phatch object.

We are always looking forward to new contributors. What would you be interested in?

In the contents side pane 'Developpers' has a typo: it should contain just 1 p. I saw it written like this elsewhere on Phatch-pages, too;

Now I remeber: the forum category.

On the Contribute page, you might want to refer to the Extensions page as well.

After creating a wikidot account I still could'nt edit any page, is this correct? Or did I miss the 'edit this page' link/button?

The page that explains how to write actions,
http://photobatch.wikidot.com/writing-actions

states that the user place to store actions is

~/.phatch/actions/

whereas on my machine (Ubuntu9.10, installed via your ppa) it is

~/.local/share/phatch/actions/

Below 'Info and metadata', photo.get_info() should be used to look up info. But it is not clear where photo is obtained from. Should this be image.get_info()?
The save.py module in phatch/actions still uses photo.info()

Also, when I try to use photo.log in my action, I get an error that it is an unknown attribute. Could you please expand on this 'photo' object?

Likewise, how can a developer find out more about the 'image' object? It took me quite some time to find out that it has an attribute size.

Some more typos:

• custom ReadFileField should be custom ProfileReadFileField
• ImageReadFileField should be ReadFileField
• *nver* should be *never*

The tutorial also mentions a web page at
http://trac.gbiloba.org/phatch
which is (still ?) unavailable (HTTP 404 error).

Finally, are user submitted extensions reviewed very, very carefully?
Because it would be very easy for some Evil Person to wipe out all the files of a user by executing a Python script, wouldn't it?

The user submitted action 'Conditional Transpose' does not work currently.
It wants to import an unknown function 'new' and defines an (IMHO) outdated function 'values' since the function condtitionaltranspose could just query image.size.

Best regards,

Roger

I just started with Phatch yesterday - is wonderful.

Thanks
cal

I use Phatch just to save photo in this format /dir/<year>-<moint>-<day>/. But sometimes, photo are saved in a directory dis-according with exif data.

For example, i have a photo with this date in exif data (i use exif tool include in Phatch to read this) : sunday december 2009, but image is saved in directory 2007-1-28.

What's wrong ?

I created a "Lava Theme Pack" for linux and used Phatch to convert the icons for resizing. You can read more about that here. My ultimate goal is to have a single scalable SVG Iconpack, is this possible in Phatch? Imagemagik is not cutting it and its SVG support is limited at best.

I did say I was going to write software; I have written a USplash Maker, a GDM Maker & XSplash maker Ultimate Edition Nautilus Scripts. I am eventually looking to write GUI themeing tools from top to bottom (totally automated). A icon conversion tool is next in line. I am looking to write a nautilus script mime typed to index.theme right click the icon theme file and Icon conversion tool is launched, user input for hex values of fore and back colors converted as user input as your colourise plugin does; output as svg. Recreation of index.theme.

Any pointers you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I thought I would let you know Phatch is included in Ultimate Edition 2.5 it has been released and is being enjoyed by many a user, including me ;)

Thanks & Merry Xmas,

TheeMahn

Would you like to file a blueprint about this?

Thank you for using Phatch

Repeat image will repeat each image n times. This can be useful with python expressions to put eg different texts on the same image.

Also I'd like to thank the developer(s) for making this awesome application! It's one of the most useful picture-editing-related things I've ever downloaded. (I would donate if I had a job!)

I'm resizing photos for a digital photo frame and they all have to be 600px high, but will have varying widths. I'd like to specify the height but have Phatch choose the width accordingly based on constrained proportions.

Is this possible?

Any help much appreciated :)

Also, is there any documentation for this dialog, I'm not sure what the option 'Repeat images' does!

Thanks for your help.

Can you please update those action lists.

Thanks

 sudo port install py26-pil py26-wxpython 

If you didn't install it previously, it will fetch, build and install python2.6, among other dependencies.

Then launch Phatch from its directory :

 python2.6 phatch/phatch.py 

PS Phatch is a nice piece of software, my best regards to the devs.

I'd settle for a macports configuration… then at least it would check dependencies during install. I think I have three different versions of python on my system now, because wxpython wanted one, PIL wanted one, and I updated other packages on my system at about the same time and that got a different version, too (2.6). When I use macports to install PIL, it seems to want python 2.4. I installed 2.5 with wxpython, but that was because I wasn't sure which version of wxpython to install (I could choose 2.5, 2.6, or 2.8).

Thanks for your fast reply. Of course I'd accept to be a beta tester. I send you the information via PM.

Regards, Claude

We are currently working on a making a Mac app file for phatch. Would you like to be a beta tester when the app is available? If yes would you send me your email address to notify you when it is available?

Thanks,
Nadia

I found Phatch by googling, and I thought this was a very interesting tool - exactly what I was looking for… unfortunately I did not manage to install it on my iMac running on Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

I must admit I am very new to Phyton, and with the few instructions I found on the web site (1- install Phyton 2- install wxPython 3- install PIL and finally do pythonw phatch.py) it only generated lots of errors in a terminal window… After trying for a couple of hours, I gave up…

Any who can give me advice on how to get it installed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Claude

I have a dual screen setup but if I am able to position the image with the other attributes working even just on the primary display, I'd be glad to have that!

I've removed the "inode/directory;" entry in the "MimeType" section…
As a result it does show up in the context-menu of image-files, but it doesn't show up in the context-menu of folders… Exactly the way I wanted it to…

Registering menu entries and file types is done in the same file, so unfortunately that can't be optional.

Maybe this could also be a feature request, the ability to choose in the preference if Phatch should add the Context Menu Item or not…

 <Exif.Image.Model[-3:]> 

Note this this will only work in phatch 0.2!

So, I want my filename to change from
myimage NIKON D90.jpg (where "NIKON D90" is the model)
to
myimage D90.jpg

Thanks.

Lu

What Phatch version are you using?

When the program runs other errors or warnings come up but it does at least do the watermarking successfully. I have not tried the others yet.

Advice welcome

Afterwards download it from here and try again:
http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.6.exe

c:\phatch\phatch>phatch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\phatch\phatch\phatch.py", line 59, in <module>
main()
File "C:\phatch\phatch\phatch.py", line 56, in main
app.main(config_paths, app_file = FILE)
File "C:\phatch\phatch\app.py", line 167, in main
_gui(app_file,paths,settings)
File "C:\phatch\phatch\app.py", line 121, in _gui
from pyWx import gui
File "C:\phatch\phatch\pyWx\gui.py", line 51, in <module>
from core import api, ct
File "C:\phatch\phatch\core\api.py", line 26, in <module>
from core import ct, pil
File "C:\phatch\phatch\core\pil.py", line 26, in <module>
import Image
ImportError: No module named Image

Go inside this folder:
cd C:\phatch\phatch

and start phatch:
python phatch.py

Paste back the error you get.

I downloaded the first link under Windows on the "Install" wikidot page - "phatch-dependencies-win32-py26.zip", and installed the four dependencies in the order noted in the readme, then installed the 3 "optional" programs, too.

These files are saved in C:\Python26
Does the "phatch-0.1.6" directory need to be saved in a particular place?

- One thing that may have impacted, is that, when installing wxPython, there was a checkbox at the end, which "changed all .py files to .pyc". I'm not sure if I should have left this checked, or if I should have changed phatch.py to phatch.pyc. -

If neither of those appear to be the answer, I'm keen to uninstall and re-install to try again - would the normal Windows "Add/Remove Programs" be applicable here, or would it be more in-depth?

Please subscribe to the blueprint. The more subscribers, the more we will take it in consideration.

Some questions:
- You don't want the images deleted from the images folder right?
- Does your images folder has subfolders?
- What condition should be used? filename, modification time, …

Could you post me in a private message who you are?

pygmee

I'd like to explain my idea about what I miss in Phatch, but before I'd like to thank to everyone that contribute this great tool.

I mainly use Phatch to make a "copycat" version of /images folder, into a /light_images folder. Why? I use it to quickly see my photos from other computers in my network. You know, WiFi, Disk, 10Mpix photos,…everything counts to slow every picture load.

So that, from my 50% photos folder, I can quickly run F-Spot, Picasa or whatever visor very well.

I'd like Phatch to "detect" that new photos have been loaded into my /images folder, and automatically resize and copy them to /light_folder.

Would be possible? Useful? It least, YES to me.

Thanks
Regards,
^_Pepe_^

This really made my day… :) Thank you, lots!

//DGnome

Could you send me your email in a private message? You have to click the top left combobox where it is saying select. The crop action is available in phatch 0.2 which release is already finished and stable but only available through bazaar:
bzr branch lp:phatch

I can email it to you if you want. Phatch 0.2 has many new features and I would recommend it strongly over Phatch 0.1

I am running OSX 10.5 and have found that only a handful of actions appear in the GUI add to list - whereas I see a lot more in the actions folder.

How do I get to use all actions?

BTW, I notice there is no crop.py - should there be?

Many thanks.

Sorry about the large image, I have a 22" widescreen. I will add your website to the bottom of the description in Ultamatix prior to release.

Thanks again,

TheeMahn

This is probably not the right place to do this, but I would like to say thanks. I am the creator of a Linux distro called Ultimate Edition, Ultamatix and many theme packs (which I used phatch to convert 14,000 icons to match the Halloween theme I am currently making). Phatch converted them in color to orange all but 429 of them a tremendous savings in my time. Interlaced PNG's were the only issue phatch had. Although my needs were simple they were many, I could not find a windows tool to accomplish this task & nearly lost hope.

Thanks again,

TheeMahn

 sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 

… and see if it runs fine afterwards.

I tried your action list and it works fine.

What comes to those Library actionlists. Simply all seams to go through, but nothing really hapens.

System is Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Phatch is installed from your PPA.
I had to install it using apt-get to overcome the keyserver problem. (Your PPA key fetch timeouts using the command given in the usage help)

"PS. Just tried those library actionlists and none of them work either."
Can you provide more details?

Is it possible for you to verify this?