Phatch: New Photo Batch Processor calling for testers

[stani]

Wow, this looks like an excellent project (both the website and the program are very professionally done).

Do you think you can add, ah, something similar to picasa's "I'm feeling lucky." option? That's the only reason I use picasa really, and doing it on every photo is time consuming.

If you can do some research on what it does *exactly*, I could maybe implemented it. It is quite difficult to implement feature "I am feeling Erps-Kwerps" from program "Haha" without details.

[stani]

Done :)

Translation status: Polish 100%

Wow, great! You are leading. No one wants to compete with another language?

I've just released a new version 0.1.bzr485 with one new translation and better locale support. (For example pt_BR was not loading, but now it does ;-))

Come on people, translate! It is the last day before it goes to Hardy. Tomorrow noon I download all translations and everything which is translated after that goes to Hardy+1 All moments are equal, but some are more equal than others. Right now there is such a moment.

(Dutch is always 100% translated by me, so do not translate dutch.)

[Vadi]

Well if it helps, there's a .deb for Picasa here (click (http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html)). The tooltip for the feature says "One-click fix for lighting and color."

And here's the google help page in this (click (http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=19726)).

(and it looks like they're using python for their help pages. Neat)

[stani]

And here's the google help page in this (click (http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=19726)).

(and it looks like they're using python for their help pages. Neat)

So it says:
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button enhances dark and bright colors in a photo and adjusts both color and contrast to optimal levels in one click.

This doesn't describe yet how it is done. I guess now Autocontrast is the closest in Phatch.

[Vadi]

Heh, I don't think they're going to share their secrets :)

You could try and experiment with it, maybe you'll get an idea...

[Vadi]

Okay, I looked at the Russian translation, and I think you didn't quite do everything properly. Usually, under the english string, there is the authors note descripting what is the string for and when is it used. For you, it just says this:

Located in /home/stani/sync/python/phatch/trunk/phatch/templates/action.py:56 /home/stani/sync/python/phatch/trunk/phatch/actions/copy.py:38 /home/stani/sync/python/phatch/trunk/phatch/actions/rename.py:38 /home/stani/sync/python/phatch/trunk/phatch/actions/save.py:48 /home/stani/sync/python/phatch/trunk/phatch/core/api.py:51 /home/stani/sync/python/phatch/trunk/phatch/core/message.py:88

Which is so not helpful, when one english word can be translated into different ones, depending on the context, in another language :|

[stani]

Okay, I looked at the Russian translation, and I think you didn't quite do everything properly. Usually, under the english string, there is the authors note descripting what is the string for and when is it used. For you, it just says this:|
Can you point to an example on launchpad where there is the authors note? I never heard of that before. Also can you point me to documentation how to implement this in python code?

Which is so not helpful, when one english word can be translated into different ones, depending on the context, in another language :|
Whenever you run into doubts, just ask as most people do. If you can find out the mechanism above I can add this feedback where people are doubting.

[Vadi]

I don't know how is it done, but I've seen it done properly when I was translating MojoSetup properly here (click (https://translations.launchpad.net/mojosetup/trunk/+pots/mojosetup/ru/+translate?start=100)). Notice the text beside the blue (i) icon.

Whereas Phatch doesn't have that (i) thing (click (https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk/+pots/phatch/ru/+translate?batch=10&show=untranslated)).

[Vadi]

Here's what I was told on #launchpad, if it helps any:

(10:57:48 AM) Vadi: If someone has a program written in Python, and wants them to be translated in launchpad - where would they be writing the strings that describe what a certain string means? Launchpad then puts that explanation below the strings that needs translation with an (i) attached to it
...
(10:59:03 AM) Odd_Bloke: Vadi: If it's with gettext, it's presumably in the .pot file (or wherever you'd normally put it).

[stani]

I think I figured it out. Just give me the numbers where you want remarks.

[Vadi]

All the ones starting from here really:

https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk/+pots/phatch/ru/+translate?show=untranslated&start=0

It looks like another translator went through your project, but left out all the ambiguous/confusing ones, so the "untranslated" filter shows them.

[stani]

All the ones starting from here really:

https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk/+pots/phatch/ru/+translate?show=untranslated&start=0

It looks like another translator went through your project, but left out all the ambiguous/confusing ones, so the "untranslated" filter shows them.

what is ambigous about Horizontal, Image Inspector, left, right, top, middle, bottom...?

Some translations will be clear if you use Phatch.

Please try to narrow this list down as right now it is too big. It was not such a problem in other languages.

Stani

[Vadi]

That's the thing - I can't (I can, but I won't, that'll be a waste of time) go hunting down every string in the program to find where is it using the string. You should say where is it used, so that translators know.

Horizontal - some languages can prefix and suffix on words differently, depending on the case. Horizontal is always horizontal in english but in russian, you have to know _what_ is horizontal. So you should say where is the string used :)

[stani]

That's the thing - I can't (I can, but I won't, that'll be a waste of time) go hunting down every string in the program to find where is it using the string. You should say where is it used, so that translators know.

Horizontal - some languages can prefix and suffix on words differently, depending on the case. Horizontal is always horizontal in english but in russian, you have to know _what_ is horizontal. So you should say where is the string used :)

Well right now I am busy packaging Phatch and SPE for Hardy. I don't know when I'll have time for that. Instead of working in launchpad you could download the Russian .po file from launchpad:
https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk/+pots/phatch/ru/+export

Afterward you open it in poEdit:
sudo apt-get install poedit

Than you start the latest release of Phatch and you see immediately where are the english strings. In poedit there is an search function (so there is no waste of time hunting) for translation. Once you are done, you send me the .po file.

That will be the less hassle for everyone. If I have to comment all these strings, I won't have time anymore to develop, write documentation or package Phatch, SPE and other open source projects I am working on.Luckily other languages have less problems and will be included with Phatch.

Or maybe another experienced Phatch user can step forward and add the comments. I can explain him how to do so. This is an ideal chance if you want to contribute but can't program or make graphics.

Stani

[stani]

Wooow! You are all great translators. Now Phatch is translated 100% in:
- English
- French
- German
- Greek
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Dutch

Phatch is 99% translated in:
- Catalan
- Galician
Please clean this up and translate the last 1%. That would be so nice.

Translations for other languages are welcome too. Take the challenge and try to push it as far as you can. 100% is always nice ;-)

OK, these need some more work but are almost there:
- Czech
- Russian
With a little effort you can do it!

If you contributed seriously to the translations, please check if your name is in the Help>About>Credits of the latest release. If not, send me a private message and you will added how you like (you can also include an url to promote your website or your email).

Thank you all so much! Now Phatch can be a success in Hardy LTS!

Stani

[stani]

I just got a notice that Phatch will be included in Magasix, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu:
http://centros.edu.xunta.es/iesxulianmagarinos/magasi/?p=59

I saw that people gave the Hungarian, italian and Spanish translations a huge boost. Please try to push it to 100%

Keep translating, I got some extra time to add it to Hardy but do not wait to get started.

There is a new version with the new translations. If you see some weird translations please change them in launchpad.

Stani

[stani]

Thanks for all your translations! Especially Czech and Spanish which are also now complete.

Are there not any active Phatch translators anymore to finish Hungarian and Italian? I heard that the Chinese population is the biggest on the internet now. I hope they also prove that by translating Phatch.

Now translations are going well. It is time to update the wiki. Let's work on screenshots. Please shift your computer to the human default theme and add screenshots to the actions where they are missing or correct them where they are outdated. Go for it!

For Phatch 0.2 I am doubting what should get priority, it is time for you to vote:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726547

Thanks,
Stani

[Vadi]

You should post on http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/ to get a good chinese response :)

[stani]

Hi Everyone,

Altough this thread might seem more quiet, Phatch development have continued. The reason is that I prefered to devote all my energy to get Phatch properly in the Hardy. As a result, I am proud to present you Phatch 0.1.3 You can get it at the usual place:
http://photobatch.stani.be

Phatch 0.1.3 fixes some bugs:
- exif writing
- relative paths for console mode
- the colours in Hardy just looked ugly with the new Human theme, so I implemented a special algorithm to make sure Phatch looks sexy for any theme
- many more fixes and small improvements (Phatch is 100% bug free)

IMPORTANT: As Phatch changed its version naming, you have to remove your previous version of Phatch first!!

This version also features some new icons from our master Igor and updated translations. This is the final version of Phatch in Hardy. After Hardy is released, Phatch 0.2 will start, for which you can cast your votes here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726547

Thanks for all your feedback which has turned Phatch in a great product. Enjoy Phatch 0.1.3!

Stani

[OZFive]

I havejust found this program and boydo i just think it is the bees knees. I tried to get the .deb package on the site but t is giving me a deopendeny error with python-central. I have python-central installed already and need to know what to do to start using Phatch,

[stani]

Are you using Gutsy? I've made this installer on Hardy. Can you check if this works for you:
http://sd-2986.dedibox.fr/photobatch/download/package/phatch_0.1.2-1_all.deb

[JoshLukas]

Same issue here on Gutsy 64bit. Just uninstalled the old version of phatch, now ver. 0.1.3-1 won't run. Thx for the link to the old file. :)


Josh


EDIT: weird. 1.2-1 won't run either.

[Rhubarb]

I havejust found this program and boydo i just think it is the bees knees. I tried to get the .deb package on the site but t is giving me a deopendeny error with python-central. I have python-central installed already and need to know what to do to start using Phatch,

Same here, so I successfully used the tar.gz file, and ran it fine by following the instructions:
http://sd-2986.dedibox.fr/photobatch/download/index.html

(I use Ubuntu 7.10 64bit)

[OZFive]

I am still a bit of a noob when it come to instaling programs without Synaptic or .deb files. I tried installing it via the instructions on the page but it is saing I do not havewxpython installed and of course it is not on synapitc LOL.

[Rhubarb]

I am still a bit of a noob when it come to instaling programs without Synaptic or .deb files. I tried installing it via the instructions on the page but it is saing I do not havewxpython installed and of course it is not on synapitc LOL.

It is in synaptic, just under a slightly different name:
python-wxgtk2.8

Install that and then try to run phatch again.

[OZFive]

That did it, but now I need to save it to a directory and add a launcher to my menus. Thanks!

[stani]

EDIT: weird. 1.2-1 won't run either.
That is possible. I am looking how far I have to go back. Does this one work?
http://sd-2986.dedibox.fr/photobatch/download/package/phatch_0.1.bzr496-1_all.deb

[stani]

OK, no more hassle for you anymore. I did my best to bring you always the latest and greatest Phatch through PPA for Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy.

Fist uninstall your previous version of Phatch.
sudo apt-get remove phatch
Afterwards just open your apt source file:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add this for gutsy:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stani/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/stani/ubuntu gutsy main
(You can replace gutsy with feisty or hardy)
My GPG key is 511595DF

After that install Phatch:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phatch

More information here: https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive

[bvanaerde]

OK, no more hassle for you anymore....
Wow, this is great news! Definitely makes it easier to keep track of the latest updates...

[beefcurry]

I ran it through bazaar, so far its great :D. The deb on the website complained about not having Python-central while I did have it. Using Gutsy, will file a bug report on it soon. Thanks.

[stani]

I ran it through bazaar, so far its great :D. The deb on the website complained about not having Python-central while I did have it. Using Gutsy, will file a bug report on it soon. Thanks.

There is nothing wrong with the deb installer, just with the webpage. The installer is for Hardy, not for Gutsy. If you use Gutsy, I advise you to use the Phatch repositories:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4680119&postcount=278

[stani]

After running the poll ...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726547

... be ready for some news on Phatch 0.2!

Ok, so the winning feature is "external actions". After some thinking this will be indeed THE feature for Phatch 0.2 because of three reasons:
- It will open Phatch up to any application which as command line interface with imagemagick as a test case. This means that Phatch 0.2 will offically support all features of imagemagick.
- The other most wanted feature live preview would not make sense to implement before external actions. For external actions the base architecture of Phatch has to be changed, which requires another implementation of live preview. So if I would do it now, I would have to do it all over again after external actions has been implemented.
- It is a long time vision. It has a lot of potential and in the far future would enable to do any kind of batch processing with Phatch not just graphics. But first Phatch will develop with the focus on image manipulation. Don't worry.

A third reason could be that it won in this poll but well, I said the process would not be democratic ;-) It is nice to see Phatch users want it as well.

Some people contacted me to help programming on certain aspects of Phatch from very small tasks to bigger issues. We had a fruitful first sprint. If you know python and want to help out, please contact me. You don't need to know anything about graphics manipulation or gui programming, just python is enough. I hope some more people join.

What I need now is a list of all possible programs which can be used for external actions. This is what I have so far:
- imagemagick
- tufuse
- ...

Which other programs could Phatch support? I am looking forward to your answers.

Stani

[stani]

Hi Folks,
I have worked on the documentation wiki so now it covers almost all of Phatch at:
http://photobatch.wikidot.com

Right now I am looking for some folks who could take one or more screenshots and upload it to the wiki. If a bunch of you step up, it should be not a lot of work. If you are interested, make yourself here known and send me a private message with your email so we can discuss the details.

Thanks in advance,
Stani

[joebert]

Unfreakin real.

I just resized/resampled ELEVEN quick test images in less time than it was taking Imagemagick to do ONE.

If this thing makes it through the 10K images I have without the same lockups Imagemagick was giving me I might just have to kiss you !

[smartboyathome]

After running the poll ...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726547

... be ready for some news on Phatch 0.2!

Ok, so the winning feature is "external actions". After some thinking this will be indeed THE feature for Phatch 0.2 because of three reasons:
- It will open Phatch up to any application which as command line interface with imagemagick as a test case. This means that Phatch 0.2 will offically support all features of imagemagick.
- The other most wanted feature live preview would not make sense to implement before external actions. For external actions the base architecture of Phatch has to be changed, which requires another implementation of live preview. So if I would do it now, I would have to do it all over again after external actions has been implemented.
- It is a long time vision. It has a lot of potential and in the far future would enable to do any kind of batch processing with Phatch not just graphics. But first Phatch will develop with the focus on image manipulation. Don't worry.

A third reason could be that it won in this poll but well, I said the process would not be democratic ;-) It is nice to see Phatch users want it as well.

Some people contacted me to help programming on certain aspects of Phatch from very small tasks to bigger issues. We had a fruitful first sprint. If you know python and want to help out, please contact me. You don't need to know anything about graphics manipulation or gui programming, just python is enough. I hope some more people join.

What I need now is a list of all possible programs which can be used for external actions. This is what I have so far:
- imagemagick
- tufuse
- ...

Which other programs could Phatch support? I am looking forward to your answers.

Stani

By the way, I just found out GIMP has a command line interface (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/), it would be great if that was supported.

[stani]

By the way, I just found out GIMP has a command line interface (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/), it would be great if that was supported.
Well, I had that in mind as well. But probably first Phatch will support ImageMagick.

[@)--',-------]

I really like this program, but I really wish it allowed for conditional statements. I.e. - if the width is less than 500px or the height is less than 500px, then resize, crop, etc.

Otherwise when I am processing many Images to fix canvas/ padding errors I end up processing images that do not need a resize/ fix and the quality and filesize suffers. It is not easy for me to sort images by size in Ubuntu, so limiting the batch that way will not work.

I also think allowing for lossless crop and canvas adds would be great also!

Great program, I really look forward to future versions!

[stani]

I really like this program, but I really wish it allowed for conditional statements. I.e. - if the width is less than 500px or the height is less than 500px, then resize, crop, etc.

Otherwise when I am processing many Images to fix canvas/ padding errors I end up processing images that do not need a resize/ fix and the quality and filesize suffers. It is not easy for me to sort images by size in Ubuntu, so limiting the batch that way will not work.

I also think allowing for lossless crop and canvas adds would be great also!

Great program, I really look forward to future versions!

Feel free to file a blueprint for it with the title "logic".

[stani]

If you are using Phatch in a different language than English or Dutch, you might run in some serious trouble as some translations messed up keyboard shortcuts or basic functionality of Phatch. It took me a while to get this fixed properly and to ensure it won't happen in the future. So I advise everyone to update from:
http://photobatch.stani.be

or to use my PPA.

[Vadi]

What is your PPA?

[stani]

What is your PPA?
https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive

Note this will update automatically your Phatch to the latest and greatest features and bugs. (Right now still only bugs are fixed, but when new features are added this might change, which means new bugs are introduced.) Therefore I leave you the choice download manually or get automatic updates.

If you do automatic updates, you are in the best position to test and to ensure future versions rock.

[Vadi]

Hm. It says "The packages are signed with the 511595DF GPG key." on the PPA page. I can't find that key anywhere though...

[stani]

Hm. It says "The packages are signed with the 511595DF GPG key." on the PPA page. I can't find that key anywhere though...

Hmmm... that is my mistake. I changed it into:
Unfortunately it is not possible to sign the binary packages from the PPA.

[stani]

New version released. It fixes a bug for when you try to select a font type in the text actions.

[sashko]

I have started Serbian translation.
Nice work stani, and I've to say thank you!

[digitalis_vulgaris]

I have started Serbian translation.
Nice work stani, and I've to say thank you!

You could connect with TZAR form Ubuntu Serbian Community to work together on translation.

Srećan rad...


http://www.ubuntu-cs.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6171 (http://www.ubuntu-cs.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6171)

[sashko]

You could connect with TZAR form Ubuntu Serbian Community to work together on translation.

Srećan rad...


http://www.ubuntu-cs.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6171 (http://www.ubuntu-cs.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6171)

That's me!

pozdrav digitalis!:)

[digitalis_vulgaris]

Hahahahahaha :lol:

[Orlsend]

Site is down for 2 of my IP's can some one host the .deb file in megaupload or some file sharing site? thanks

[stani]

Site is down for 2 of my IP's can some one host the .deb file in megaupload or some file sharing site? thanks

Yes the site is down due to hard disk failure. So it has to be rebuild from scratch. I still have a backup of everything, but configuring a virtual host take time. The debs are in universe and in my ppa, so they can be obtained there anyway. In Ubuntu or debian you can install it with:
sudo apt-get install phatch

I'll do my best to get this up and running again, but please be patient as I am quite busy at the moment with other things as well. If someone has experience with virtualbox ubuntu servers and wants to give a hand, please contact me.

[stani]

Yes the site is down due to hard disk failure. So it has to be rebuild from scratch. I still have a backup of everything, but configuring a virtual host take time. The debs are in universe and in my ppa, so they can be obtained there anyway. In Ubuntu or debian you can install it with:
sudo apt-get install phatch

I'll do my best to get this up and running again, but please be patient as I am quite busy at the moment with other things as well. If someone has experience with virtualbox ubuntu servers and wants to give a hand, please contact me.

It is up again ;-)

[Orlsend]

Finally after weeks of trial and error I managed to get the web-site running and the download.

[altonbr]

Is there any work being done to add image convertions to Phatch? If it is a batch processor, I would find it very very useful to be able to convert from PDF to JPG, such as Imagemagick's convert program.

e.g.
for file in `ls *.pdf`; do
convert -colorspace RGB $file -resize 800x800 `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'`
done

I also created a brainstorm for creating an image converter and adding it as a default program in Ubuntu [1]. I didn't know of Phatch until now but am I ever glad to learn of it!

[1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13719/

[stani]

Is there any work being done to add image convertions to Phatch? If it is a batch processor, I would find it very very useful to be able to convert from PDF to JPG, such as Imagemagick's convert program.

e.g.
for file in `ls *.pdf`; do
convert -colorspace RGB $file -resize 800x800 `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'`
done

I also created a brainstorm for creating an image converter and adding it as a default program in Ubuntu [1]. I didn't know of Phatch until now but am I ever glad to learn of it!

[1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13719/



For a next version of Phatch it is planned to open Phatch for imagemagick, gimp, etc… However no timetable is set yet. How are your coding skills?

BTW Phatch runs on Linux, Mac & Windows.

[binbash]

I can't download patch from lauchpad or anywhere, the link is broken

[durand]

How about here: http://photobatch.stani.be/

[Vadi]

The links there are indeed broken

[durand]

That's weird. They work for me..

Intrepid: https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive/+files/phatch_0.1.6-0ubuntu1~8.10~ppa1_all.deb
Hardy: https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive/+files/phatch_0.1.6-0ubuntu1~8.04~ppa1_all.deb
Gutsy: https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive/+files/phatch_0.1.6-0ubuntu1~7.10~ppa1_all.deb
Feisty: https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive/+files/phatch_0.1.6-0ubuntu1~7.04~ppa1_all.deb

[Vadi]

All of them don't work here. Remember that LP renamed the URL structure of the PPA pages because they'll be allowing multiple ppa's per person/team soon.

Proper link is

https://launchpad.net/%7Estani/+archive/ppa/+files/phatch_0.1.6-0ubuntu1~8.10~ppa1_all.deb and etc.

[durand]

That is interesting however they do actually work for me... Anyway, I have no idea what else you could try.

[Nevon]

I'm currently working on the Swedish translation. So far I've translated about 20% of it.

[binbash]

This repo works :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sargentd/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

[richandcreamy]

I've been using this program for months but after installing some updates it stopped working. I'm not sure what's interfering with it. Any ideas on trouble shooting it?

[AJB2K3]

I've got an issue using phatch here.

I want to do the following

Resize to 800X600,
Save as full<###>.jpg
Resize to 100X75
Save as tmb<###>.jpg

But for some reason it stops after the first save as.

Can anyone help or do I just have to run to scripts.

[Orlsend]

Its seems I can't work with pictures that in my home directories, even with sudo.Is that a security feature or a bug?

[richandcreamy]

Anyone know how to install PIL in XP? I can't find any guides.

[Lonco]

great tool! thx! :D

[AJB2K3]

Anyone know how to install PIL in XP? I can't find any guides.
Got http://photobatch.stani.be/
Click on free download,
Follow instructions.

[stani]

I'm preparing a new release of Phatch. Please start translating on rosetta:
https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk/+pots/phatch

Of course this release won't make it into Jaunty, but will be available from my PPA. Translating the missing strings will speed up the release process.

[stani]

Linux+ magazine of May 2009 (french edition) has a 6 page review about Phatch:
http://lpmagazine.org/prt/view/actualites/issue/1022.html

PS. Please keep translating so the new release does not get delayed. Almost all languages miss words now.

[stani]

Hi all,

Good news: the new test release of Phatch 0.2 is ready and available through my PPA repository! Read more about it here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7398717

Please reply there and start translating (as they are a lot behind):
https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk/+pots/phatch

Thanks!
Stani

[UbuntuNerd]

is there a Jaunty version I just installed it with out thinking and got an error message then I realized I had Jaunty installed and not Intrepid

[stani]

Please post questions about Phatch 0.2 here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7398717

[Purre]

Just find this program and I´m already love it :) Thanks for this :)

[hesjnet]

Thanks alot for this program! Nice work.:KS

[sugcagli]

Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, rename, ... and much more actions (http://photobatch.wikidot.com/actions) in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Get Started! (http://photobatch.wikidot.com/getting-started)

[stani]

Thanks a lot for the compliments! Please subscribe to our PPA to help testing the new versions of Phatch. At the moment it are bug fix releases with more translations and some cool new artwork, so they'll work better as what is by default in Karmic:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stani
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phatch

[mocha]

Thanks a lot for the compliments! Please subscribe to our PPA to help testing the new versions of Phatch. At the moment it are bug fix releases with more translations and some cool new artwork, so they'll work better as what is by default in Karmic:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stani
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phatch


Why does your deb have Blender and locate as dependancies?

[stani]

Why does your deb have Blender and locate as dependancies?

The PPA contains development snapshots of the upcoming phatch releases. They are used to test all features of Phatch with a wider audience. Or to quote the ppa page itself:
Note that if you install Phatch from this repository, it will depend on all packages with which Phatch can interact. This includes Blender, Inkscape, imagemagick, ...
If you don't want all the new features just use Phatch which ships with vanilla Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install Phatch
Blender is a dependency in the PPA as Phatch has a Blender action which can turn any image into a 3D image of a lcd screen, book, box, can, ... Phatch uses locate to locate various useful files such as fonts on your system.

[megamania]

I'm using version 0.2.4 and I'm having problems applying IPTC tags.

I'm attaching two pictures:
- the first one shows what I'm trying to do: set the copyright field to "test", and apply a "phatch" tag to the keywords field.
- the second picture shows the result: only the first letter of the tag is inserted in the copyright field, while the result for the keywords field is even more complicated... the word "phatch" is interpreted as 6 keywords, one for each letter.

Exif tags seem to work ok.

Any ideas if I'm doing something wrong? Is it a bug?

[protector2020]

hi dude, thanks so much for creating this great tool, it has even more functions than I need. I'll be checking them out on time. the feature I liked the most is the integration within nautilus. I use Linux Mint 8 (based upon Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic) and phatch 0.2.4

[stani]

Please start translating Phatch for Ubuntu Lucid!
https://translations.launchpad.net/phatch/trunk

[spcwingo]

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone else is getting this (a video of what is happening because it's kinda hard to put into words):

http://www.mediafire.com/?te4nttmtmli

Thanks in advance for any help/insight as to what is going on. :)

[stani]

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone else is getting this (a video of what is happening because it's kinda hard to put into words):

http://www.mediafire.com/?te4nttmtmli

Thanks in advance for any help/insight as to what is going on. :)

Which version of Phatch are you using? I can't reproduce this with Phatch 0.2.7, but it might have been a bug in a previous version.

[spcwingo]

Sorry, I forgot to add what version I am using. :oops: I'm on 0.2.7.

[stani]

Sorry, I forgot to add what version I am using. :oops: I'm on 0.2.7.

Hmmm... could you try to run Phatch from trunk:
sudo apt-get install bzr
bzr branch lp:phatch
cd phatch/phatch
python app.py

[spcwingo]

Hmmm... could you try to run Phatch from trunk:
sudo apt-get install bzr
bzr branch lp:phatch
cd phatch/phatch
python app.py

The trunk version does the same. It's also not throwing any errors on the terminal. The version in the standard repos doesn't do this at all, but the newest version has features that would be nice to have. BTW, thanks for giving me a hand with this.

[stani]

The trunk version does the same. It's also not throwing any errors on the terminal. The version in the standard repos doesn't do this at all,What you mean with 'this'? What happens when you click more to the left where the list appears? (Instead of clicking more right and moving left to the list.)
but the newest version has features that would be nice to have. Which new features do you like? Trunk contains code for the upcoming 0.2.8 release which will be also available for Mac and Windows.
https://launchpad.net/phatch/+milestone/0.2.8
BTW, thanks for giving me a hand with this.You're welcome ;-)

Can you paste the output of (trunk version):
python app.py --context

[spcwingo]

What you mean with 'this'? What happens when you click more to the left where the list appears? (Instead of clicking more right and moving left to the list.)

I was referring to the disappearing dropdown menus (sorry, I should have been more descriptive). When I click further to the left (on the selection text) I don't even see the dropdown at all.

Which new features do you like? Trunk contains code for the upcoming 0.2.8 release which will be also available for Mac and Windows.
https://launchpad.net/phatch/+milestone/0.2.8

Mostly the extra options for watermarking and the imagemagick selections.

Can you paste the output of (trunk version):
python app.py --context

{'app_actionlists_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/actionlists',
'app_actions_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/phatch/actions',
'app_bin_paths': [u'/home/jonathan/phatch/phatch/../../bin',
u'/home/jonathan/phatch/phatch/../../bin/blender',
u'/home/jonathan/phatch/phatch/../../bin/imagemagick'],
'app_blender_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/blender',
'app_data_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data',
'app_doc_dev_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/doc/build/html/index.html',
'app_doc_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/doc',
'app_extension': '.phatch',
'app_fonts_cache_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/fonts.cache',
'app_fonts_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/fonts',
'app_gui_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/gui',
'app_highlights_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/images/highlights',
'app_images_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/images',
'app_locale_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/locale',
'app_masks_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/images/masks',
'app_name': 'phatch',
'app_preview_actionlists_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/gui/preview/actionlists',
'app_preview_blender_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/gui/preview/blender',
'app_preview_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/gui/preview',
'app_preview_perspective_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/gui/preview/perspective',
'app_source_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/phatch',
'app_title': 'Phatch',
'app_watermarks_path': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/data/images/watermarks',
'apple': False,
'context': ('linux', 'source'),
'desktop_path': '/home/jonathan/Desktop',
'distribute': 'source',
'linux': True,
'phatch-inspector.ico': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/setup/images/icons/256x256/phatch.ico',
'phatch.ico': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/setup/images/icons/256x256/phatch.ico',
'phatch_48x48.png': u'/home/jonathan/phatch/setup/images/icons/48x48/phatch.png',
'platform': 'linux',
'py_extension': '*.py',
'start_time': 1270344487.0199101,
'unix': True,
'user_actionlists_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/actionlists',
'user_actions_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/actions',
'user_bin_paths': [u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/bin'],
'user_cache_path': u'/home/jonathan/.cache/phatch',
'user_config_path': u'/home/jonathan/.config/phatch',
'user_data_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch',
'user_fonts_cache_path': u'/home/jonathan/.cache/phatch/fonts.cache',
'user_fonts_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/fonts',
'user_geek_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/geek.txt',
'user_highlights_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/highlights',
'user_log_path': u'/home/jonathan/.cache/phatch/log',
'user_masks_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/masks',
'user_path': u'/home/jonathan',
'user_preview_path': u'/home/jonathan/.cache/phatch/preview',
'user_settings_path': u'/home/jonathan/.config/phatch/settings.py',
'user_watermarks_path': u'/home/jonathan/.local/share/phatch/watermarks',
'version_app': '0.2.7',
'version_pil': '1.1.6',
'version_platform': 'Linux-2.6.24-27-generic-i686-with-debian-lenny-sid',
'version_pyexiv2': '<installed>',
'version_python': '2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 20 2010, 21:48:48) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)]',
'version_wx': '2.8.7.1 (gtk2-unicode)',
'windows': False}

[stani]

I was referring to the disappearing dropdown menus (sorry, I should have been more descriptive). When I click further to the left (on the selection text) I don't even see the dropdown at all.What is the Phatch version from the standard repo's where it is still working correctly for you?
Mostly the extra options for watermarking and the imagemagick selections.
What you mean with imagemagick selections?

{...
'version_platform': 'Linux-2.6.24-27-generic-i686-with-debian-lenny-sid',
...}
Which distro and version are you using? Debian Lenny or Ubuntu Karmic?

[spcwingo]

What is the Phatch version from the standard repo's where it is still working correctly for you?

0.1.3

What you mean with imagemagick selections?

Polaroid, sharpen, unsharpen, pencil sketch, etc.

Which distro and version are you using? Debian Lenny or Ubuntu Karmic?

Neither, Ubuntu Hardy.

[stani]

0.1.3



Polaroid, sharpen, unsharpen, pencil sketch, etc.



Neither, Ubuntu Hardy.
Hmm... any chance for you to test this on Karmic or Lucid?

[spcwingo]

I currently don't have a spare box to test on (what kind of geek am I?!?!). I'll be upgrading to Lucid at the end of this month (when it comes out). I'll let you know if it does any better after the switch. Thanks again for helping me out.

[spcwingo]

All is now well with Phatch on my machine after a clean install of Lucid.

[Dragonbite]

Is this in the repositories?

[stani]

Is this in the repositories?

Yes.

[jacqie]

Hi,
I've problem with phatch - can't select any file type (in save action). [Ubuntu 11.04; phatch 0.2.7]
Any idea, what could be wrong?
Maybe some not installed packages?... I don't know. :confused: