Programmatic XCF text layer editing

[Anthony Buff]

(02-12-2023, 09:46 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: See my remark above about the availability of the Python support in Gimp in recent Linux distros.

You will know you have a working Python support when you have a working Filters > Python-fu > Console in the UI.

FWIW

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(02-12-2023, 12:39 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: You don't need to open the UI(*), you can use Gimp+Python in batch mode from a shell (or shell script), but your script still has to start a Gimp process and tell it to run your Python. See this example.

This is what I tried to do here:

Code:

gimp -idf --batch-interpreter python-fu-eval -b "import sys;sys.path=['/home/Kaitlyn/Desktop']+sys.path;import ChangeGimpTextLayersSample;ChangeGimpTextLayersSample.run('/home/User/Desktop/FieldSheet.xcf')" -b "pdb.gimp_quit(1)"

Trying to call this:

Code:

import sys
import os
import traceback
import logging
from gimpfu import *
import gimpcolor
from collections import namedtuple

logging.basicConfig(filename='/home/User/Desktop/gimp_script_log.log', level=logging.DEBUG)

file_path = "/home/User/Desktop/FieldSheet.xcf"

if os.path.exists(file_path):
    logging.debug("Found FieldSheet.xcf")
    image = pdb.gimp_xcf_load(0, file_path, file_path)
    layers = image.layers
    for layer in layers:
        if layer.name == "ChangeMe":
            logging.debug("Found ChangeMe layer")
            pdb.gimp_text_layer_set_text(layer, "Testing Script")
    pdb.gimp_xcf_save(0, image, image.active_layer, "/home/User/Desktop/test.xcf", "test.xcf")
    logging.debug("Finished processing FieldSheet.xcf")
else:
    logging.debug("The file does not exist.")