GIMP plugin DBP (David's Batch Processor) for Ubuntu?

[norman]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 13:04 -0400, Ed Smits wrote:
> The problem is that my wife is in Europe taking pictures and wants to
> send me the images, but needs to resize them. I managed to get her on
> to Feisty a week before going, but won't even try to get her to do
> command line stuff, my marriage is fragile enough as it is.
> 
> I was able to put together an FAQ for her using gThumb, for resizing
> batches it worked fine, I just got my first dozen pics from her, so
> that's solved. However the plugin in question, David's Batch Processor
> (http://tinyurl.com/28cch9) will do all sorts of other things as well:
> turn, blur, color, resize, crop, sharpen, rename etc., I  think all
> would agree that this is a useful batch processor. So far she knows
> how to use Thunar's Bulk Rename and gThumb, maybe for now that's
> enough until I get over there with her.
> 
> So, no one knows how to get David's Batch Processor working with Ubuntu?
> 
> 
> Damn!
> 
> 
> ED
> 
> On 7/2/07, Sven Richter <sveri-list at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Monday 02 July 2007 15:29:39 Ed Smits wrote:
> > > Running Feisty, need to batch resize lots of images, want to use the
> > > GIMP plugin DBP
> > >
> > > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html
> > >
> > > I can't get it to make, errors out when I try using both the latest
> > > source code as well as an earlier version. I have build essentials
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=170862
> > >
> > > says that I need to have gimptool, and the gimp-devel packages as well
> > > installed, yet I can find no track of them in Synaptic.
> > >
> > > Anyone have this plugin working who can tell me how to do it?
> > >
> > I dont know anything about the plugin, but resizing can be simply done
> > with imagemagick.
> > F.I. put these lines in a bash script and execute it:
> > for file in `ls *.jpg`
> > do
> >         convert -scale 140x140 $file klein/$file
> > done
> >
> > Thats it, it resizes every jpg file in the folder you startet
> > it to  140x140 and copies it to the "klein" directory.
> >
> > You could put some things around it, like writing
> > a simple html page into a file.
> > Just as an idea what imagemagick and bash can
> > do for you.

If this is really to do with the Gimp why not put your question on  


gimp-user at lists.xcf.berkeley.edu

Norman