> I can say that you are better suited with ImageMagick and, like you > said, your custom perl scripts. > I quote: > > "Batch mode is slow. Its not really a practical replacement for tools > like ImageMagick or NetPBM when it comes to large scale image > conversions or similar. At least not without writing some very clever > scripts. > > The problem with this approach is that gimp/script-fu has no built in > procedures to itterate though a list of images. So you cant easily tell > gimp to load up *.jpg and run predator.scm on them, at least not without > it taking a _long_ time. > > So you could write a shell script to fire up gimp in batch mode for each > image, but that starts a new gimp for every image. And gimp startup time > is very very slow, especially if you plan to repeat ir a few hndred > times." > > src: http://adrian.gimp.org/batch/batch-7.html
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