I've just posted my new plug-in, GIMP Book, over at the GIMP Plugin Repository. It's a tool for managing multiple pages with the GIMP. Personally I'm using it for making comics, but it works just as fine for illustrated books, sketch books and more. It's a bit similar to the story mode in Manga Studio, for those of you who are familiar with it.

Note, I've only tested it on Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10 so far, and it should definitely be considered beta software. It requires Python and PyGTK to work. In theory it should work on Windows and OSX too, as I'm not doing any OS specific stuff, but I haven't tested it.

Oh...and this is my first post here. So hi all... I've been on GimpTalk for a while, but it was down again today , so I figured I'd give GimpChat a shot.

Welcome to Gimp Chat Ragtag! I think you'll really like the folks here, they are.....well, more chatty.

Not to mention friendly!

Welcome ragtag, very nice to have you aboard. You will find we are all very friendly here so don't be shy to ask for help or to offer help in any of the threads.
Cheers

Welcome Ragtag...just wondered if your plug-in would be useful for setting up a story board or working out layers for simple animations?

Sure, it could be used for storyboards, though I would do one tweak. Currently the Book window shows all the pages in two columns, like a book spread. For a story board, it would probably me more convenient to have them just flow to the width of the window.

You can change this in the code at line 1264, by replacing "self.thumbs.set_columns(2)" with "self.thumbs.set_columns(-1)".

I'll probably add a menu with this option in future versions, so you don't have to change the code to change the layout.

Thanks ragtag and welcome to Gimp Chat.
I use Windows XP 32 bit with Python26 , and your plug-in doesn't show in the Windows menu.

Thanks for letting me know. I need to get around to installing GIMP on Windows soon to test it. I also found a bug in the script, that means it only work if you set the thumbnail size in GIMP to Large, which should be an easy fix. Hmm...I guess there was a good reason I marked it as a beta version.

Btw....you do have working Python in GIMP on Windows, right? It needs Python, PyCairo, PyGObject and PyGTK, as far as I know.

You are welcome.No reason to be embarrassed.
I do have Python fu working in Gimp-2.6.11.

What version of Gimp do you have ragtag? In Windows, 2.6.11 doesn't come with Python, PyCairo, PyGObject and PyGTK, You download them separately and install them.

If you download 2.7.5, it already has Python installed plus, Gap, MathMap and GMIC.

If you are using Ubuntu, you install Gimp from their repository. It comes with Python and G'MIC

I'm using Gimp 2.6.11 on Ubuntu 11.10. Python is installed by default on Ubuntu, so the only thing I had to do was install Gimp from the repository. I do have a Windows XP and a Windows 7 machine lying around, so I just need time to install Gimp on them and test it there. Though I'll probably test it first on Gimp 2.6 under Windows, before trying 2.7.