Phatch = PHoto & bATCH!

Thank you zigraphix for offering to be a beta tester as well. Would you send me your email address to notify you when the app is ready? Phatch is compatible with python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. It is also compatible with wxpython 2.8 and 2.6.

I'd like to be a beta tester for you too, if possible. I'm on OSX 10.5 (Leopard).

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).

Hi Nadia,

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

Regards, Claude

Hi 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

Hi!

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

How do I remove anything less that 100% opacity from my images?

I use linux (elive with e17 as desktop), and I was wondering if phatch can do this: a png with a transparent background, to be positioned at a certain spot, with no window decorations, i.e. borderless would be nice. Don't really need to tilt or anything (image already is). But most viewers/graphics editors (feh, display, qiv, ee) I've had or used only do 2 out of 3, and scripting to do all 3 gets out of hand. Do you think phatch could do it?

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!

Well I searched a bit around and I found a rather brutal way to fix this issue…
I've edited both the "phatch.desktop" files located in:
- /usr/share/app-install/desktop
- /usr/share/applications

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…

If you are talking about the "Open With …" context submenu, I'm afraid I can't do nothing about that. This is a freedesktop standard, which is responsible for registering an application in the dekstop menu and registering its extensions.

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

Although I love Phatch, it really is a pleasant program to use, I don't really like that it added a Context Menu Item in my Nautilus menus….
Is there a way to remove this entry from the menu?

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…

Does this work?

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

Note this this will only work in phatch 0.2!

I'm trying to use the tag <Exif.Image.Model> as part of the filename, but only want to use the last 3 characters. Can I trim this tag via some python expression?

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

Thanks.

Lu

Using Phatch 0.1.6 for Windows

Color to Alpha is new in Phatch 0.2, which is not officially released yet besides in Debian/Ubuntu. If you use another os, it is temporarily available from:
http://sd-2469.dedibox.fr/photobatch/download/package/phatch-0.2.4.tar.gz

What Phatch version are you using?

I have quite a few actions available to me, but not the one I need. I cannot find Color to Alpha.

Can you copy & paste all warnings?

I had to download a new version of one of the dependancies because it failed to install first time. However the DOS window reports "…\phatch\core\lib\formfield.py:272: Deprecation warning: Base exception.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6 self.message = message".

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

It looks like PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.6.exe is not properly installed. If you are sure you installed it, please remove it.

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

I did as you suggested, but the command "python phatch.py" gave an error stating that "python" was not a valid command. By entering simply "phatch.py", the below error came out, which I believe is the same error that appears briefly after I double-click on the phatch.py icon:

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

No the phatch directory can be anywhere. To keep it simple put it as "C:\phatch" Open in the start menu of windows the "Run" entry and type "cmd" (or open the DOS command prompt in another way).

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

and start phatch:
python phatch.py

Paste back the error you get.