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

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!

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…

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

Thanks.

Lu

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

- 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?

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_^

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.

Phatch seems to ignore EOS 450D EXIF image orientation… So I wanted to check if phatch is supposed to be able to understand image orientation or if I should make a feature request :)

//DGnome

 {'actions': [{'fields': {'Tag (Exif, Iptc)': 'Exif_Image_Copyright', 'Value': u'Tanja N\xe4\xe4t\xe4nen, tanja.naatanen at keijukammari.fi', '__enabled__': 'yes'}, 'label': 'Write Tag'}, {'fields': {'Tag (Exif, Iptc)': u'Exif_Image_Artist', 'Value': u'Tanja N\xe4\xe4t\xe4nen', '__enabled__': 'yes'}, 'label': 'Write Tag'}, {'fields': {'File Name': u'<filename>_tagged.<type>', 'In': u'<folder>', '__enabled__': 'yes'}, 'label': 'Save Tags'}], 'description': '', 'version': '0.2.1'} 

And here is the traceback that it produces!

 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 690, in on_menu_tools_execute self._execute(actionlist) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 289, in _execute update=self._send_update_event, **keyw) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/core/api.py", line 681, in apply_actions_to_photos image_infos = verify_images(image_infos, settings['repeat']) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/core/api.py", line 437, in verify_images ok_label = _('C&ontinue'), buttons=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/lib/events.py", line 30, in __call__ return Publisher().sendMessage(self.topic,data) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/other/pubsub.py", line 798, in sendMessage self.__topicTree.sendMessage(aTopic, message, onTopicNeverCreated) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/other/pubsub.py", line 485, in sendMessage deliveryCount += node.sendMessage(message) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/other/pubsub.py", line 323, in sendMessage listener(message) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/lib/events.py", line 48, in __call__ return self.method(*args, **keyw) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 173, in show_image_tree self, size=(600, dialogs.get_max_height(300))) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/pyWx/dialogs.py", line 598, in __init__ super(ImageTreeDialog, self).__init__(*args, **keyw) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/pyWx/wxGlade/dialogs.py", line 71, in __init__ self.browser = FolderFileBrowser(self.panel, -1, data, Data, headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/lib/pyWx/folderFileBrowser.py", line 138, in __init__ self.SetData(data, Data, headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/phatch/lib/pyWx/folderFileBrowser.py", line 163, in SetData self.tree.ExpandAll() AttributeError: 'TreeCtrl' object has no attribute 'ExpandAll' 

could you suggest me how is possible to compress (saving file) the tiff format by phatch?

I've seen that it's possible, but i don't understand how..:-\ (http://photobatch.wikidot.com/action-save)

many many thanks!!

I really liked the fact that you can write your own actions in Python
so I gave that a go as well.

Now I am however a bit stuck with unexpected interactions between the
actions I've written. My problem is a bit more complicated than what I
show below but in the interest of simplicity I'll describe it just
with reference to standard actions rather than custom ones.

Say I want to resize and rename an image and not lose its EXIF tags
(in reality my custom renaming even DEPENDS on the tags, but forget
about it for now).

If I do SCALE / RENAME then the result is a renamed version of the
original file (with the original EXIF tags), but with no scaling: even
if rename comes later, it renames the original rather than the result
of the pipeline until then. Ok, fair enough. Then…

If I do SCALE / SAVE / RENAME then the resulting file is indeed scaled
and renamed, but SAVE nukes the EXIF tags, even though I did tick the
"save metadata exif and itpc" in the batch options.

If I do SCALE / RENAME / SAVE then I get two files: a renamed unscaled
version of the original file PLUS a scaled but not renamed version of
the file.

If I just do SCALE / SAVE, I get a scaled file but the EXIF tags have
disappeared—-this just to confirm that SAVE actively destroys them,
regardless of other actions in the pipeline, despite my having ticked
that box. It just adds "Software: Phatch" and kills the rest.

If I do RENAME / SCALE / SAVE then again I get the two files: a
renamed version of the original file, with EXIF intact but no scaling,
as well as a scaled but not renamed version without the EXIF. I
enclose the file for this action list at the end of the post—-all the
others can be obtained by permutation/deletion of the actions.

So it looks like I'm hitting two independent problems here:

1) the SAVE action does not preserve the EXIF tags. How can I make it
do that? And what's the purpose of the tickbox in the batch options if
that's not what it does?

2) after a RENAME action, the next actions don't "continue" the
pipeline with the renamed file but instead operate on the one before
the renaming. How can I enforce that? Can I insert some kind of
"commit" action in the pipeline, or even better incorporate it into
the code of the RENAME action?

Thank you very much in advance

{'actions': [
{'fields': {
'Filename': u'<year>-<month>-<day>-<hour>-<minute>-<second>',
'In': u'<folder>/<subfolder>',
'enabled': u'true'
},
'label': 'Rename'},
{'fields': {
'Constrain Proportions': u'yes',
'Height': u'256 px',
'Resample Image': u'antialias',
'Resolution': u'72',
'Scale down only': u'yes',
'Width': u'256 px',
'enabled': u'true'
},
'label': 'Scale'},
{'fields': {
'As': '<type>',
'Filename': u'<filename>',
'In': u'<folder>/<subfolder>',
'JPG Quality': u'70',
'JPG Size Maximum': u'0 kb',
'JPG Size Tolerance': u'5 %',
'PNG Optimize': u'yes',
'Resolution': u'72',
'enabled': u'true'
},
'label': 'Save'}
],
'description': u'Describe here the action list.'}

I'm looking for something I can run automatically on our Linux server, that will take two images and create a single ganged image.

Thanks.

1) I want to put my watermark on the right bottom. I have pictures of different hight and width but I want all watermark in the same place (right bottom). In fact, what I want is % :) So, I set it as method. I put 70% for example. But it is not working as expected. Watermark is put sometimes upper and sometimes down.

See
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/DestinoMochilas/documents/cLQajECHmr3RvYeJe5afGb/download/PNLosAlerces.png
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/DestinoMochilas/documents/coPB6SCHmr3RvYeJe5afGb/download/BallenaAustral3.png

Any idea how can I fix this ?

2) My watermark is transparent and it is png. When the waterwark is put in the image, I can see the background of the transparency with the little black and white squares :(
However I did choose "png" as image.

Thanks a lot for the help.

Mariano

it is a very great app, I like the concept.

I miss one feature: PNG is a very popular format, please add a feature to 'Save' action, where the user can select the number of colors used in the output PNG.

For example, it is very common to save screenshots in PNG with 256 colors. Or it is also common to convert images to black and white.

Head of output TIFF file:

 0000:0000 | 49 49 00 2A 08 00 00 00 00 0C 01 00 00 03 01 00 | II.*............ 

Get a sample file here (706kB):
http://fileupl.com/down.php?i=lwtvpd&n=IMGP7504.tif

I updated today, so the latest version from bazaar:

 drslony@budgie ~/.phatch_bzr/phatch $ phatch Traceback (most recent call last): File "usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 14572, in <lambda> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/pyWx/lib/autoCompleteCtrls.py", line 60, in _showDropDown if not self.dropdown.IsShown(): File "usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 14522, in __getattr__ wx._core.PyDeadObjectError: The C++ part of the AutoCompleteTextCtrl object has been deleted, attribute access no longer allowed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 14572, in <lambda> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/pyWx/lib/autoCompleteCtrls.py", line 60, in _showDropDown if not self.dropdown.IsShown(): File "usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 14522, in __getattr__ wx._core.PyDeadObjectError: The C++ part of the AutoCompleteTextCtrl object has been deleted, attribute access no longer allowed. 

The font list still contains only 1 font though, "Free Sans".

The one thing missing from it from my perspective is support for Nikon's raw format .nef files. I had to first batch convert to .png format and then scale, sharpen, watermark and save. If I could do this straight from .nef format it would be fantastic.

I am guessing this is something missing from the python-imaging library, bu don't know for sure. There is .nef support with ufraw and dcraw under Linux, so maybe this would be of help?

Many thanks for some great software. I'll make a monetary donation as with or without raw support it's still very useful.

Cheers!

I installed phatch from bazaar because my older 1.6 installation wouldn't let me choose any fonts, so I couldn't watermark my images.
mkdir ~/.phatch_bzr
cd ~/.phatch_bzr
bzr branch lp:phatch
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
drslony@budgie ~/.phatch_bzr/phatch $ phatch
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/phatch", line 14, in <module>
main(config_paths, app_file = file)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/app.py", line 177, in main
_gui(app_file,paths,settings)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/app.py", line 123, in _gui
from pyWx import gui
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 45, in <module>
from core import api, ct
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/core/api.py", line 35, in <module>
from models import Action
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/core/models.py", line 33, in <module>
from core.lib.desktop import DESKTOP_FOLDER, USER_FOLDER
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/core/lib/desktop.py", line 41, in <module>
re.search('XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="(.*?)"',open(user_dirs).read())AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Any ideas? Broken head or my fault?

This action-list doesn't work as expected:

#########################
{'actions': [{'fields': {'Constrain Proportions': u'yes',
'Height': u'480 px',
'Resample Image': 'bicubic',
'Resolution': u'72',
'Scale down only': u'yes',
'Width': u'640 px',
'enabled': u'true'},
'label': 'Scale'},
{'fields': {'As': u'jpg',
'Filename': u'<filename>',
'In': u'<root>/<foldername>_phatch/<subfolder>',
'JPG Quality': u'85',
'JPG Size Maximum': '0kb',
'JPG Size Tolerance': '5%',
'PNG Optimize': u'yes',
'Resolution': u'72',
'enabled': u'true'},
'label': 'Save'},
{'fields': {'Constrain Proportions': u'yes',
'Height': u'100 px',
'Resample Image': 'bicubic',
'Resolution': u'72',
'Scale down only': u'yes',
'Width': u'100 px',
'enabled': u'true'},
'label': 'Scale'},
{'fields': {'As': u'jpg',
'Filename': u't_<filename>',
'In': u'<root>/<foldername>_phatch/<subfolder>',
'JPG Quality': u'85',
'JPG Size Maximum': '0kb',
'JPG Size Tolerance': '5%',
'PNG Optimize': u'yes',
'Resolution': u'72',
'enabled': u'true'},
'label': 'Save'}],
'description': u'Beschreibung f\xfcr die Aktionsliste'}
#########################

Scenario:
Given a folder "test" with images and a subfolder "inner_folder" with images.

Phatch should produce a

"test_phatch" (containing all images from folder "test" created by action "resize1" AND action "resize2")
"test_phatch/inner_folder" (containing all images from folder "inner_folder" created by action "resize1" AND action "resize2")

Instead, it produces these folders:

"test_phatch" (containing all images from folder "test" created by action "resize1")
"test_phatch/inner_folder" (containing all images from folder "inner_folder" created by action "resize1")

and erroneously these:
"test_phatch/phatch" (containing all Thumnails from folder "test" created by action "resise2")
"test_phatch/phatch/inner_folder" (containing all Thumnails from folder "inner_folder" created by action "resise2")

I want to keep all resized images (=resize and the corresponding thumbnails (=resize2) together in each folder.

-> How do I archieve the desired behaviour? (Or is it a bug?)

Thx

I would just like to say THANK YOU to creators of Phatch. For many months I look for program that makes nice rounded corners automatically but could not find any. Then after many researches I find Phatch. At first I found it very complex to install since I do not know much about programs but then I see its power as I read more and so I decide "I will get this!"
I installed Phatch and it works perfectly and Im very happy.

I thank all Phatch programers for sharing your skills with us and giving to community for free. Is very good work and Phatch team has lots talent.

Sorry if my English is not that good. Thank you :)

i'm using linux opensuse 11.1, when you say we need to install python, wxpython and pil before unziping and installing phatch : which pil are you talking about and where do you find it ?
i'm not sure which one to use.

i can't find it here : http://software.opensuse.org/search

and

here's what i have so far in opensuse 11.1 :

1. zypper se pil

Chargement des données de l'espace de stockage…
Lecture des paquetages installés…

S | Nom | Résumé | Type
+------+------------—+---
| Pile | A downloadtool for hostingsites like rapidshare | paquetage
| Pile | A downloadtool for hostingsites like rapidshare | paquetage source
| Pile-debuginfo | Debug information for package Pile | paquetage
| Pile-debugsource | Debug sources for package Pile | paquetage
| evolution-pilot | The Integrated GNOME Mail, Calendar, and Addressbook Suite | paquetage
| gnome-pilot | GNOME PalmPilot Programs | paquetage
| gnome-pilot-conduits | A Collection of Additional Pilot Conduits for GNOME | paquetage
| gnome-pilot-conduits-lang | A Collection of Additional Pilot Conduits for GNOME | paquetage
| gnome-pilot-devel | Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development. | paquetage
| gnome-pilot-lang | GNOME PalmPilot Programs | paquetage
| jpilot | Palm Pilot Desktop for Linux | paquetage
| jpilot-Backup | Backup Plug-In for J-Pilot | paquetage
| jpilot-devel | Palm Pilot desktop for Linux - devel package | paquetage
| kde4-kpilot | HotSync Software | paquetage
| kdepim3-kpilot | This Package allows Communication with the 3COM Palm Pilot | paquetage
| kompile | Configuration, Compilation and Installation of Source Tarball | paquetage source
| kompile | Configuration, Compilation and Installation of Source Tarball | paquetage
| kompile-debuginfo | Debug information for package kompile | paquetage
| kompile-debugsource | Debug sources for package kompile | paquetage
| perl-PDA-Pilot | PalmPilot Perl Modules | paquetage
| pilot | Simple file system browser | paquetage
| pilot-link | Pilot-Link Based Synchronization Development Header Files | paquetage
| pilot-mailsync | An e-mail Synchronization Program for Palm OS-based Organisers | paquetage
| pilot-mailsync-gnome-pilot | GNOME Pilot Plug-in for e-mail Synchronization | paquetage
| pilot-mailsync-jpilot | J-Pilot Plug-in for e-mail Synchronization | paquetage

Thanks ;)

Download [3.4MB] http://www.panopixel.org/downloads/phatch_lossless_image_quirks.tar.bz2

Here are samples saved using:
1x1 1x1 1x1
http://imgbin.org/images/461.jpg

2x1 1x1 1x1
http://imgbin.org/images/462.jpg

1x2 1x1 1x1
http://imgbin.org/images/463.jpg

2x2 1x1 1x1
http://imgbin.org/images/464.jpg

I'm trying to get Phatch to run so I can test it as an alternative to photoshop for rounding image corners. I think I have gotten all the python components installed. However, I don't understand the install instruction ""Start Phatch in trunk/phatch with: python phatch.py". I've not used Python before, so I'm guessing I'm missing some very basic knowledge. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Bob

my dir structure is like that
batch
|— actions
|— files
but i'm not sure it is related

if i run command line : phatch -c -r ./grey.phatch ./files/

it runs perfectly
so i did

 os.chdir('/var/www/batch/actions') retcode = subprocess.call(['phatch', '-r', '-c', 'grey.phatch', './files/'],0) 

and nothing is processed

My locale file:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

To run Hedgewars in English I need to do this:
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" hedgewars

but to run Phatch in English I need to run this:
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

When I asked in #qt whether its a phatch/hedgewars bug, or a QT bug, this is the reply I got:

 [17:33:56] <ahigerd> DrSlony: A little of both [17:34:22] <ahigerd> DrSlony: QLocale follows LC_NUMERIC because it's intended for numeric formatting purposes, so it's a bug if you're using QLocale for choosing a text language [17:34:36] <ahigerd> DrSlony: But it's also a flaw in Qt that it doesn't offer any way of detecting the appropriate user-messages language [17:35:35] <DrSlony> ahigerd : hmm, what about phatch using the correct language when i change LC_CTYPE and NOT LC_NUMERIC? [17:35:54] <ahigerd> DrSlony: So hedgewars is probably (wrongly) using QLocale. phatch isn't technically wrong because LC_CTYPE is a valid choice although it SHOULD be looking for LC_MESSAGES [17:36:58] <DrSlony> ahigerd what should hedgewars use instead of qlocale? [17:37:52] <ahigerd> DrSlony: It should check LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL, LANG, and LANGUAGE environment variables, probably in that order 

I didn't filter out hedgewars from the discussion because perhaps its relevant.

I hope this helps you fix Phatch from using the wrong language :]

After batching the files are all with the watermark but some have it on a different place.

What do I do wrong? Schiet mij maar lek

Thanks in advance!

How would I be able to do this?

First, is unicode support required by phatch? I have never installed either of the above with unicode support.

After inputting an action list and attempting to execute the actions, the text field next to the browse folder button has two small square box characters in it. When I select a new folder to process the text field is updated with more garbage (ie non-ascii) characters. If I attempt to batch process the selection anyways, an error dialog appears saying 'Sorry, …. is not a valid path'.

Phatch had been working about 6 months ago when I last used it, but since then, both python and wxpython have been updated to the versions above. I am not sure what the previous configuration was.

Any idea of what is going wrong? Incidentally, the corresponding file dialog and dir dialogs are working the in the wxpython demo program and other applications I have.

Thanks

Phatch insists on presenting me with a Polish interface, and I cannot change this. Any solutions?

Since 1 year, I'm developping a motorized panohead control software, call Papywizard (PAnoramic PYthon WIZARD):

http://trac.gbiloba.org/papywizard

I'm at the end of the 1.x branch (about to release the last stable version, 1.6). This branch is build against PyGTK, because my first target is Nokia internet tablets (770, N80 and N810). But I have many issues with PyGTK maemo port, so I decided to switch to PyQt for the v2, which will open much more plateforms support (but drop 770 compatibility).

This v2 is an ambitious project, where I plan to write a robust framework, in order to be able to add new features and other hardware panohead support more easily. So, I think it will be build arround a plugins framework.

As Phatch is using a great plugin architecture, I would like to know if you have some links to documentations on this subject, or if there are books I should buy?

Thanks,

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I didn't succeed in an hour of surfing the site…
Bye and thanks

Salva con nome

I can add a blueprint for this if desired, at first glance it looks like it can be accomplished with ftplib. I am not suggesting that Phatch become yet another FTP client, but I think it could become the standard for maintaining image galleries, I would certainly add detailed instructions to the Drupal handbook on using this feature.

This is my problem: I would like to use phatch to fit several screenshots into a given photograph of a computer monitor in "natural" 3D-perspective. "Watermark" and "Perspective" seem to be suitable for this task.
As I do not completely understand the input parameters of "Action Perspective", especially the exact meaning of "Bottom/Right Shear Factor", this kind of transformation is a process of trial and (even more) error for me. I also know about the PIL "Image.transform PERSPECTIVE option", but also I do not understand the meaning of the eight parameters there (and also was not able to find detailed information about it …).

For my purpose it would be perfect to give the coordinates of four target corners as parameteres for the perspective transformation - just as it is implemented in gimp. Does anyone have a hint for me?

Thanks in advance!
—
Christoph

Phatch rename files like this :
Daughter - 2008 10 08 - 001
Daughter - 2008 10 08 - 002
Daughter - 2008 10 10 - 003
Daughter - 2008 10 10 - 004
Daughter - 2008 10 10 - 005

but i need
Daughter - 2008 10 08 - 001
Daughter - 2008 10 08 - 002
Daughter - 2008 10 10 - 001
Daughter - 2008 10 10 - 002
Daughter - 2008 10 10 - 003

the index is relative of the file date

there is a way to do that ?
thank you very much

Alex
Sorry for my english

phatch revno 540 on Ubuntu 8.04

I have an actionlist at ~/.phatch/actionlist/pre-publish.phatch
When I execute
$ phatch pre-publish

I get a list of available actionlists (pre-publish is not chosen)
When I choose an actionlist, I get "Drag and Drop" dialog, I'm
expecting the main Phatch dialog.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Kent

Thanks for this great program.

One question:
Is possible to resize a picture giving only one dimension? I'll explain: If I need a picture of fixed width, but with height undefined, how can I resize the picture with proportions constrained so the picture is fixed width?
For example: I have a site that accept pictures as wide as 800 pixel. I have pictures of all sizes and I have to resize on that fixed width. I don't care about the height of a picture, because my website can scroll down but not left/right.

It can be possible to achieve? Because as far I've tried, you must specify width AND height.

Thanks to everybody.

Greetings.
Ricky

../../publish/<folder>/<subfolder>

the destination directory to have the same name as the current directory in a different tree.

My attempts to cause this have been unsuccessful.

Can 'Save' do this?

Thanks,
Kenht

The boss and most of the staff use Windows, so they had to go out and purchase a batch image conversion server.

I came on board and showed them that I could use Imagemagick in Linux to get the same effect:

 for file in `ls *.pdf`; do convert $file -resize 800x800 `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'` done 

This worked great for me as it converted the 50 files in under a minute and appeared fine in Firefox.

Unfortunately, the files could not be viewed in Internet Explorer on Windows (just another reason to hate IE).

It took me a long long time to figure out the problem until I used Phatch's Tools > Image Inspector to find that the files were actually in CMYK colour space and not RGB. (Duh! What happened to my two years of graphic design education and many more years of experience?)

I was also frustrated with Ubuntu's (including Windows' and Mac's) lack of a good image converter program. So using Ubuntu's brainstorm, I submitted an idea for the creation of a Gnome/GTK file converter (e.g. a front-end to Imagemagick) [1]

To my surprise a program like that had already been created and in fact was already included in Ubuntu (Hardy and now Intrepid). That program, was of course Phatch!

Unfortunately, as much as your program is amazing and has some features that I would have never thought of (e.g. rounded corners) it appears to be missing - what is most important to me - file conversion.

I was just wondering if there is a plan to add the ability to convert PDF files to JPG, etc. any time soon? I'm not sure what kind of libraries that would require or if Imagemagick has a Python API, but I would find it very useful.

Thank you for listening!

[1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13719/

I think it would be great if it was possible to add a Phatch context menu (with my 3 last used actions for example) in my file browser:
for example I would select a group of pics/or folders, right click, in the context menu select "Patch action", then choose one of the 3 proposed actions, and see the result.

Regards,
YannUbuntu

I would really enjoy if it was possible to select a group of pics/or folders, (right click) open them with Phatch, then choose the action and process it.

Regards,
YannUbuntu

I use to resize my pics to a 1280x800px resolution, in order to put them as Wallpapers. Would it be possible to add these figures (and other frequent screen resolutions, like 800x600) in the pre-set px dimensions?

Regards,
YannUbuntu

drslony@localhost ~ $ phatch
/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py:14240: UserWarning: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch
warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/phatch", line 14, in <module>
main(config_paths, app_file = file)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/app.py", line 165, in main
_gui(app_file,paths,settings)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/app.py", line 121, in _gui
from pyWx import gui
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 51, in <module>
from core import api, ct
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/core/api.py", line 26, in <module>
from core import ct, pil
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/phatch/core/pil.py", line 26, in <module>
import Image
ImportError: No module named Image

I use gentoo x86_64, and my package versions are:
dev-python/wxpython-2.8.7.1
app-admin/eselect-wxwidgets-0.8
dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r6
dev-python/imaging-1.1.5 (PIL)
sys-apps/findutils-4.3.13

Any ideas?

I use tEXt chunks in png files to store metadata.
When PIL saves a png file it discards this information.

I would like it if Phatch would preserve this data, like this

def put_tEXt(filename, data):
import Image
from PngImagePlugin import PngInfo

im = Image.open(filename)
info = PngInfo()
for key in data.keys():
info.add_text(key=key, value=data[key])
im.save(filename, pnginfo=info)
return im

Thanks,
Kent

for example, I am trying to go through my mp3 collection and process all my album covers (resize) -> (rename) -> (save) and the last part trips me up. I can't find out how to get

/home/david/cleanmusic/Rock 90s/Weezer/2008 - The Red Album/weezer - red album.jpg

to save as

/home/david/cleanmusic/Rock 90s/Weezer/2008 - The Red Album/cover.bmp

I can save it in another folder, pretty much anywhere I like except the original folder

Help!

Thanks for all the great work on the application though.

I've put this on launchpad as a Blueprint too: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/phatch/+spec/branching

What do you think?