Graphic Slicing with The Gimp?

Ivo asks: "I'm a webdeveloper working almost exclusively in Linux. But I currently still use Windows to use Adobe's ImageReady, to splice up the designs that we get from our webdesign partners. Usually, if someone asks 'can I do Adobe Photoshop stuff on Linux', the answer is of course, Gimp. Gimp rules. No doubt about that, and I use it all the time. But I miss the features that ImageReady has, like automatic generation of a lot of small images and buttons for a website, including mouseover and mouseoff variants. Doing that manually in Gimp or Photoshop takes hours. Is there a program for Linux, or even better a plugin for Gimp, that does what ImageReady does?" How difficult would something like this be to do using Script-Fu?

Comments

try python

[DrSkwid]

and the PIL module

you can even do it interactively

python is cross platform too so your scripts won't be wasted if/wehn you move platforms

I use it for generating thumbnails and <img> tags and whatever

Re:try python

[DrSkwid]

quick cut and paste from the pythonware site

Example: Create JPEG Thumbnails
import os, sys
import Image

for infile in sys.argv[1:]:
outfile = os.path.splitext(infile)[0] + "-thumb.jpg"
if infile != outfile:
try:
im = Image.open(infile)
im.thumbnail((128, 128))
im.save(outfile, "JPEG")
except IOError:
print "cannot create thumbnail for", infile