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MareroQ
 Post subject: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:39 am  (#1) 
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There are a lot of guidance in pdf format for Gimp.
Only for convenience call (open pdf in another program)

For example: G'MIC The Handbook
http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gmic_reference.pdf

Place gmic_handbook.bat and gmic_handbook.pdf in the catalog C:\Gmic - or edit the path in Gmic_handbook.py and gmic_handbook.bat and Adobe Reader.

gmic_handbook.bat

Code:
@echo off
echo *** Do Not Close this Window ***
echo Temp File: %1
start "c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 10.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe" "c:\\Gmic\\gmic_handbook.pdf" %1


Gmic_handbook.py

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


from gimpfu import *
import shlex
import subprocess
import os, sys

def plugin_main(img, drawable):
  command = "\"C:\\Gmic\\gmic_handbook.bat\""  #<<--EDIT
  args = shlex.split(command)
  child = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=True)

register(
        "python_fu_gmic_handbook",
        "gmic_handbook",
        "gmic_handbook",
        "GimpChat",
        "MrQ",
        "2012",
        "<Image>/Help/G'MIC: The Handbook",
        "*",
        [],
        [],
        plugin_main,
        )

main()


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Odinbc
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:15 am  (#2) 
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It works fine, just needed to change gmic_handbook.pdf to gmic_reference.pdf in the .bat file. Oh and open a file in Gimp first.

One more thing, I use Evince for PDFs even though I left the path to Adobe Reader, Evince opened no problem (Vista).

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RobA
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:48 pm  (#3) 
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Odinbc wrote:
It works fine, just needed to change gmic_handbook.pdf to gmic_reference.pdf in the .bat file. Oh and open a file in Gimp first.

One more thing, I use Evince for PDFs even though I left the path to Adobe Reader, Evince opened no problem (Vista).



If you replace the "*" in the register with "" then it will work with no image open.

(that parameter is the image type, "*" means any image type, but an image is required)

-Rob A>

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Odinbc
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:15 pm  (#4) 
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Thanks Rob,
You learn something new everyday.
So I had already changed gmic_handbook.bat to,
Code:
@echo off
echo *** Do Not Close this Window ***
echo Temp File: %1
start "c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 10.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe" "c:\\Gmic\\gmic_reference.pdf" %1


And now Gmic_handbook.py to,
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


from gimpfu import *
import shlex
import subprocess
import os, sys

def plugin_main(img, drawable):
  command = "\"C:\\Gmic\\gmic_handbook.bat\""  #<<--EDIT
  args = shlex.split(command)
  child = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=True)

register(
        "python_fu_gmic_handbook",
        "gmic_handbook",
        "gmic_handbook",
        "GimpChat",
        "MrQ",
        "2012",
        "<Image>/Help/G'MIC: The Handbook",
        "",
        [],
        [],
        plugin_main,
        )

main()


Works like a charm!

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PhotoComix
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:24 pm  (#5) 
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but why use a script to open a pdf ?
file/open would not work ?

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Odinbc
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:20 pm  (#6) 
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Quote:
but why use a script to open a pdf ?
file/open would not work ?

file/open is a script. ;)

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Rod
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:52 am  (#7) 
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Cool idea. :)
Though i use GSView not Adobe Reader.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/

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MareroQ
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:42 pm  (#8) 
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Tutorials can be in different format *.doc,*.odt, *.htm, *.txt, and of course *.pdf.
Only for convenience - you can all these different types of documents call of the Gimp menu (by editing the file: bat and py).

For Win XP (regardless of the path "exe" in the bat file) opens the target file in combination - so the bat file can be reduced to writing:
Code:
@echo off
echo *** Do Not Close this Window ***
echo Temp File: %1
start "exe" "c:\\XYZ\\xyz.odt" %1

where xyz is the directory and file name.
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PhotoComix
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:30 pm  (#9) 
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i must try

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Odinbc
 Post subject: Re: Open the book help (in pdf format) from Gimp menu
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:40 pm  (#10) 
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This script was working fine for me yesterday. Today I see the following dialog pop-up if I don't have an image open first in Gimp.
Attachment:
gmic_handbook _error.png
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I have the code changed to Robs suggestion in "gmic_handbook.py".
Code:
register(
        "python_fu_gmic_handbook",
        "gmic_handbook",
        "gmic_handbook",
        "GimpChat",
        "MrQ",
        "2012",
        "<Image>/Help/G'MIC: The Handbook",
        "",
        [],
        [],
        plugin_main,
        )

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