I am not sure if, IGLO - Images Grid LayOut has been mentioned here before. If you need to print multiple copies of an image on one sheet of paper it's worth checking out. IGLO help.

The only parameters changed from default were, 'Paper Size' and 'Duplicate Image(s) x-times'.

This script creates a new image.

Here's an example of the original image's white space.


Gimp 2.8.6

interesting

thanks Odin for the info !

Just a tiny word of caution with IGLO. It is an old script that goes back to Gimp 2.2 although the latest version from 2009 changelog fixes some gimp 2.6 bugs.

If you search back, (usenet? comp.graphics.apps.gimp?) there were the occasional reports of multi-layer .xcf images made with IGLO being corrupt. From memory (getting old, none-too-reliable) this was about images made in gimp 2.4 and failing in Gimp 2.6

If you use common sense and keep the source images safe, I think there is no problem with Gimp 2.8. Just be careful.

Still not the easiest script to use.


Looks like the web site is gone at the moment, I get a gigaserver web-hosting message displayed here.
Still there, if you go to the internet archive.
http://web.archive.org/web/201210090154 ... oboda.biz/

I have always liked GIMP sharps picture package. As it will allow for different image sets.
For instance i can have 3 images one size and 1 image another all on the same printout.
It works great for GIMP-2.6 and some GIMP-2.7 versions but doesn't function at all in GIMP-2.8.

With the IGLO support site down here is a copy of the instructions.
Thanks to rich2005 for the IGLO support link.

IGLO - Images Grid LayOut
Easy way to print multiple photos on single paper
Simply open your images in the Gimp, run the script and print created grid

Brief description

• IGLO is a Gimp script.
• Script merges multiple images to another one with grid layout.
• You can use it for printing multiple photos on single paper, creating posters, wallpaper, CD/DVD covers, etc.
• You can duplicate images in final grid to print visit-card, etc.
• Script uses as many as possible opened images according defined grid cell count.
• Size of grid cell, count of grid cell, count of rows and columns are calculated automatically, or defined by user settings.

Download ver. 1.2 (7. 7. 2009)

• last change - enhanced image placement - images on right side of the paper are aligned to the right and images on bottom side of the paper are aligned to down
• detailed changelog is inside script file

Install and use

• Install Gimp - IGLO is tested with version 2.8
• Download IGLO and unpack (untar) archive - on MS Windows you can use 7zip, TotalCommander, etc.
• Place script in your ~/.gimp-2.8/scripts, or [gimphome]/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/
• Run Gimp and open your images for printing
• Run script from main Gimp menu /Tools/Images Grid Layout (at least one image must be loaded!)
• Set your specific settings in opened dialog, or let it default and click OK
• Print created image

Possible settings
There is lot of settings, but you can only open images, and run the script without any special setting.

1. size of new image from standard paper sizes or set manually width and height in pixels or millimeters
2. user defined maximum size of images on the paper(size of place for image in the grid)
3. units for size values
4. DPI of new image
5. set amount of image duplication (you can duplicate one or more images)
6. count of rows and columns in grid of images (size of grid sell will be calculated and images will be automatically scaled)
7. distance between grid cells
8. script duplicates last image to empty cells if you set more grid cells then opened images
9. automatic image rotation for best orientation in grid cell
10. automatic change of image aspect ratio to grid cell aspect ration
11. type of interpolation (cubic, linear, none) and supersampling for scaling
12. flatten visible layers in new image (you can do additional changes to arranged images, if you uncheck the setting [for example: you can hide some layer with image to print grid without it])
13. color of foreground (color of empty grid cell)
    color of background (color of paper, IOW: color of space between grid cells)