Installing Plugins
pixt...@gmail.com
plugins that I get from the Plugin Registry site. What is the step by
step process for installing a plugin (eg. Redeye.exe) to the Gimp
plugin folder? Also, in which menu will it appear in The Gimp main
window? I am not of the computer generation so please make your reply
easy to follow. Thanks.
Michael Soibelman
As no one has responded to this post yet I will try to help you. I do not
have windows installed, which is why I hesitate, as I like to duplicate my
responses to posts 'before' I respond...
Anyway, the way to do it in windows is to simply copy (move) the file
(plugin) to the Gimp plug-in directory. Not sure where that is but you
probably can figure that out.
As to where a plugin will have its' menu item appear there are two ways to
figure that out.
1. Open the plugin in a text editor and read the plugin code. You should
see the menu location near the top of the text. As the plugins and Gimp
are all open source you can view plain text files like these plugins and
actually see what's going on. No secrets.
2. After installing a plugin open the Gimp and click the xtns menu item at
the top of the main Gimp menu -> Plugin Browser.
There you can select the plugin by name and the information window that
appears will show the path to the menu item.
I'm not sure if you can 'install' plugins in windows the same way as in
Linux but here's how we (Linux users) do it.
In a terminal cd to the directory where the plugin is located. Then type:
(assuming your plugin is called something.c)
gimptool-2.0 --install something.c
or
(assuming your plugin is called something.scm)
gimptool-2.0 --install-scipt something.scm
or
(assuming you have a 'binary' plugin)
gimptool-2.0 install-bin something
For a list of all possible options just enter gimptool-2.0 without any
arguments and you will get a list. Or type gimptool-2.0 --help. Either
way works.
So, as I said, I don't know if there is an equivalent in Windows (gimptool)
for installing plugins in Gimp. Just move the plugins to the plugin
directory. In Linux there is a system wide plugin directory that only the
root (administrator) can add plugins to, which is the same folder
(directory) that the standard plugins that come with the Gimp are installed
to. There is also a 'hidden' folder created when you first start the Gimp
which is placed in the users 'home' folder. Inside of this folder is where
the users personal plugind will be installed. These will not be available
to other users though...
As Windows is usually a single user system some of this might not make sense
to you. Just try to copy or move the plugin to the Gimp's plugin folder.
Then restart Gimp.
P.S. In Linux you can simply copy/move the plugin into the plugin directory
as well as long as you know the difference between a binary plugin, c
plugin or a script (fu, python, perl)......
Oh so many choices :-)
P.S. #2... Forgot to mention that the equivalent in Windows would be to open
a 'command prompt' window and do the same as in Linux (i.e. Gimptool-2.0)
to 'try' to install a plugin. Let me/us know if that works even though I'm
quite certain many others in this group already know the answer to
that... ;-)
pixt...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Michael for your informative reply. I will experiment in the
next week, time permitting, then get back to you + the group.
pixt...@gmail.com
Michael, got a chance to try your suggestion, WORKS PERFECTLY!!. In
the Plugin Browser, shows the exact location. My example was the
"redeye" plugin, allows both automatic or manual redeye correction, a
very useful plugin. I assume that for Windows, I can only use ".exe"
plugins, others I see are for Linux (tar.gz), others have a ".c"
or".scm" file name. Am I correct? Thanks again, Ken.
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
pixt...@gmail.com wrote:
> I assume that for Windows, I can only use ".exe" plugins, others I see
> are for Linux (tar.gz), others have a ".c" or".scm" file name. Am I
> correct?
`*.tar.gz` is an archive format similar to `*.zip`, if it's (directly)
usable under windows depends on the contents. `*.c` are source files in
the C programming language. While most of the should be compilable under
Windows it's a more elaborate process. Scheme source file (`*.scm`) on
the other hand should work fine as Gimp comes with a built in Scheme
interpreter. They must be copied into the scripts folder.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
pixt...@gmail.com
> In <1175260238.426102.78...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Thanks Marc. The only plugins in the plugins folders are .exe files,
so I will stick with them. I see the .scm files, among others in the
script folder so I will copy some new .scm files into that folder.
Will they then show up in the Script-Fu menu in the main Gimp window?
Thanks. Ken
pixt...@gmail.com
I see that the .scm files show up in the little Gimp window in the
xtns menu, then Script-Fu, will have to locate the xtns folder in the
main Gimp program file folder. Thanks again. Ken.