7. Använda GIMP

Remember that you can do a whole lot with Script-Fu. The scripts that come with Gimp can be quite useful, but they can also serve as models for learning Script-Fu, or at least as a framework and source of modification when you make your own script. Read the Script-Fu Tutorial in the next section if you want to learn more about how to make scripts.

We will describe some of the most useful scripts in this chapter, but we won't cover them all. There are simply too many scripts. Some of the scripts are also very simple and you will probably not need any documentation to be able to use them.

Script-Fu (a dialect of Scheme) isn't the only scripting language available for Gimp. But Script-Fu is the only scripting language that is installed by default. Other available scripting extensions are Perl and Tcl. You can download and install both extensions at the Gimp Plugin Registry.

[Tip] Tips
If you have downloaded a script, copy or move your new script to your .gimp-2.0/scripts directory and do a refresh. The script will now appear in one of your menus. If you don't find it, look for it under the root file menu filters. If it doesn't appear at all, something was wrong with the script.

Note that you can't use more than one Script-Fu dialog at a time, so don't open a script and one more after that. The last one will never be opened and displayed.

Think again. Did you really read the information in the dialog, or did you just press the button? If you forgot an input the script needs, or if you gave it the wrong input, the script will fail. One of the most common errors is that the font specified in the script dialog hasn't been installed on your system. So please check the information in the dialog before blaming the script.