On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 11 Nov 2008 03:00:11 am David Gowers wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Joshua McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I sell postage stamps. For inventory photos, I scan whole "stocksheets" >> > (black backing, acetate strips to hold the stamps) with the stamps in >> > place, then use GIMP to cut out the individual stamps for listing. >> > >> > Right now, I draw a rectangular selection around each stamp, then CTRL-C, >> > CTRL-SHIFT-V, CTRL-SHIFT-S, type a name. I can do this pretty quickly, >> > but my wrists would thank me if there were a way to bind this series of >> > keypresses to one keystroke, or to have a sort of "Copy to" like the old >> > Windows Paint program had. >> > >> > Sorry if this is a ridiculously easy question. >> >> Alec's idea is pretty elegant. My ideas are below. >> >> On Linux, you can use xDoTool for this; You would basically create a >> noninteractive Python plugin which runs the following command using >> os.system(): > > David -- > > I fail to perceive in which ay this could be any better than a plug-in that > simply does the copy, paste as new, save in first place, without loopback > keyboard input hacks. Then you have succeeded. Alternatively, you could pay attention to the difference in workflow.
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