unable to install resynthesize on portable GIMP 2.10.18

[cynflux]

Hello,
I am trying to install resynthesizer on portable GIMP 2.10.18, but it doesn't show up under Filters.
I have put the necessary files in the plugins folders.
I was able to install resynthesizer on regular install of GIMP 2.10.18 and it shows up there, but need it on the portable version.
I am not sure what I am going wrong.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[rich2005]

(04-29-2020, 01:35 AM)cynflux Wrote: Hello,
I am trying to install resynthesizer on portable GIMP 2.10.18, but it doesn't show up under Filters.
I have put the necessary files in the plugins folders.
...snip....

Which portable Gimp are you using, the one from samj or the one from portableapps.com or ...something else ?

plus, which Windows 7 or 10 , 32 or 64 bit ?

[cynflux]

(04-29-2020, 08:32 AM)rich2005 Wrote:

(04-29-2020, 01:35 AM)cynflux Wrote: Hello,
I am trying to install resynthesizer on portable GIMP 2.10.18, but it doesn't show up under Filters.
I have put the necessary files in the plugins folders.
...snip....

Which portable Gimp are you using, the one from samj or the one from portableapps.com or ...something else ?

plus, which Windows 7 or 10 , 32 or 64 bit ?

Windows 10 and I think it is portable GIMP from portableapps.com

[rich2005]

(04-29-2020, 01:35 AM)cynflux Wrote: Windows 10 and I think it is portable GIMP from portableapps.com

This using the portableapps.com installer GIMPPortable_2.10.18-2.paf.exe - size 186 MB

To make the program portable, many of the files are 32 bit including all of the plug-ins, so I have gone that route.

The attached zip contains 4 files resynthesizer.exe resynthesizer-gui.exe plugin-heal-selection.py  plugin-heal-transparency.py

These go in the portableapp equivalent of the Gimp user folder ..\Data\.gimp\plug-ins ( The installation did not contain that folder which is a bit strange. The path is there if you look in Edit -> Preferences -> Folders -> plug-ins )

Unzip the attached file and copy there.

   

A bit more strangeness with the python plugins, the first line needs to be #!/usr/bin/env python2 otherwise the plugin does not show, so fixed that.
Tried out in both a Win10 64 bit and a Win7 32 bit and working in both. This Win10:

   

[cynflux]

Thank you for the great instructions. It works now.
Could the same process be applied for the NIK plugin collection?

https://archive.org/details/nikcollection-full-1.2.11
https://steaz.altervista.org/shellout-pl...ollection/
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3983752

Thank you in advance.

[cynflux]

I think I figured it out. I had the plugin in the wrong folder.

[rich2005]

You did better than me Trying to make the NIK collection portable, it is really a permanent installation, plenty of reg entries, need VisualC runtimes ...etc....

There is an alternative the Gimp gmic plugin http://www.gmic.eu

Get the zipped version, un-zip put the whole folder in the plugins. An example on your other post:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Anton-...7#pid17957

[bwwd]

Someone who did that portable 18 version is a nice joker, paths were changed, i cant install export layers to png plugin, wow.
THANKS !!! How about sticking to previous paths mr joker.So i dont have to spend half of the day figuring it out, i still did not figure it out, works great in normal installer, but no , it doesnt work in portable.Paths to non existant folders, amazing idea.
So what i did, i copied exact path from non portable version to make it work, it should work 100000000000% right ??????????
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT DOESNT WORK EVEN WITH THE SAME PATH AS REGULAR INSTALLER !


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tHIS FIXED IT , THANKS A LOT RICH2005 !!
A bit more strangeness with the python plugins, the first line needs to be #!/usr/bin/env python2 otherwise the plugin does not show

But its still a farce that you could battle till eternity with this if you didnt know that somehow portable and non portable have stupid pthon 2 requirements that make plugins not work

[rich2005]

There is a simple rule here: be polite. No need for hysterical posts.

From your screenshot that is a portable gimp from portable apps. Then you added a path to a regular Gimp 2.10 installation. Why do that?

The place for any plugins in that portableapps.com Gimp 2.10 is as shown the folder GIMPPortable/Data/.gimp/plug-ins

If you looked at a previous post you might have seen

These go in the portableapp equivalent of the Gimp user folder ..\Data\.gimp\plug-ins ( The installation did not contain that folder which is a bit strange ..)

So you have to make that folder. Is that a deal breaker? Are you saying that plugins in that folder do not work.

This is not the forum to complain about that, You should go to portableapps.com

Edit: There might well be a reason for the missing folders. I seem to recall that one of the Windows packaging programs would not add an empty folder to the installer bundle. You had to add a 'placeholder' file in the folder.

There are other portable Gimps: http://www.partha.com has one, 64 bit only and samj https://samjcreations.blogspot.com/ a bit of a monster, separate 32 and 64 bit in one installation.

[carmen]

(05-07-2020, 10:51 AM)rich2005 Wrote: ...There are other portable Gimps: http://www.partha.com has one, 64 bit only and samj https://samjcreations.blogspot.com/ a bit of a monster, separate 32 and 64 bit in one installation.

For windows, one can try winpenpack.com--both 32 and 64 bits, last windows version.
I haven't tried it since version 2.8 (retirement...), but my first Gimp (2.6) was a portable from that site...