The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    GIMP Layering Question

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Dire NTropy, Jun 6, 2008.

  1. Dire NTropy

    Dire NTropy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    297
    Messages:
    720
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew how to open multiple .ps files (over 1000) as layers in GIMP and not have to click on the prompt each time (just have it use the same attributes as the base picture)? Thanks!
     
    Dire NTropy, Jun 6, 2008
    #1
  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

    Reputations:
    3,300
    Messages:
    7,115
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    206
    Over 1000 .ps files? Are you trying to crash your machine or something? What are you trying to do? Loading that all up simultaneously will kill your system.
     
    Pitabred, Jun 6, 2008
    #2
  3. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,886
    Messages:
    6,566
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Maybe he has a big swap?
     
    Gintoki, Jun 6, 2008
    #3
  4. Dire NTropy

    Dire NTropy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    297
    Messages:
    720
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I have done so with over 150 already without much of a problem...its just tedious to click 'import' thousands of times (I do many runs :p). Its just for a research project, I am making .gifs of galactic systems and I wanted to increase resolution, so I am making the timesteps between snapshots smaller and increasing the runtime. If you can't do the above in GIMP is there an alternate converter from .ps to .gif? Thanks!

    edit: I believe I have an 5 GB swap for following the 1.5xRAM rule of thumb (just for situations like this :)). Is this enough.
     
    Dire NTropy, Jun 6, 2008
    #4