[Zope] Zope & Gimp & Win32

[Jim Penny]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:29:08AM +0200, Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 19:16, Anders Schneiderman wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a product that will dynamically create pictures by
> > calling Gimp from Zope.  
> Huh? Why you whould not like to use ImageMagick or even PIL? Is it overkill to 
> use GIMP and I don't think you get the result in the right way. There is 
> dozen of other great (and much faster!) graphical libraries which works fine 
> with images, text and layers and even trace to SVG.

No, he wants to use things that are available through script-fu.  Things
like the cool metal, or chrome logo, etc.  These would be very painful to do
using things like ImageMagick or PIL.  

Now, the comment Andreas made about its being poorly documented, and or
buggy, is appropriate.

But, for what this guy wants to do, it does appear to be an appropriate
tool.  Unfortunately, I have not tried to do this kind of thing, so I
cannot say that it is easy, or even doable.

It is possible that the folks at cooltext.com will be willing to talk
about how they did it, this appears to be exactly what is desired.

I wonder about gimp-python
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygimp/

All the documentation is about plug-ins, but I think from quick overview
that it can be used to deliver a drawable.  If so, it would be good
fodder for an External Method.

Jim Penny

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> Regards, Bogdan
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