Silhouette (Issabella's tutorial) Script

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

mahvin wrote:

I'm beginning to think it does have deprecated code parameters, because 3 of his scripts, I can't use at all.

Easy way to check. Just have someone using GIMP-2.8.18 open the procedure browser and search for gimp-image-select-item and check it against GIMP-2.8.16's parameters.

GIMP-2.8.16 Parameters

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

This is 2.9.5 parameters and they have not changed.

Issabella · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2016 2:10 am **(#63)**

RJKD, you asked me about the procedure to it. I open a new image, then I write the text or you open an image. After that set it in the centre of the canvas and layer to image size. Selected image/text layer, run the script. You can change the back layer with other colour or pattern, gradient etc...
Thanks Rod for your research and help.

Pat, you are getting great results in so many fields. Good! :hi5

RJKD · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2016 7:27 am **(#64)**

Thank you Issabella, tried and tried it with the script but keep getting error messages. I'm happy to stick with your original tut for now (it doesn't take long). I think I need to take a complete inventory of my GIMP because I installed a lot of filters and stuff when I first started and didn't have a single clue what I was doing ( I thought that the more I installed the better things would be and thought that if I didn't 'grab' scripts and plug-ins they may vanish somehow?!?!) Then I found GimpChat, here I learned about Gimp Scripts site and what community really means. You live and learn - in Peace.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Rod, I clearly have the script in the right location and regardless of which layer I select or run the script on, it throws those errors I posted earlier. FWIW, it's not that hard for me to do manually, so I'm not overly concerned about it.

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Thank you Issabella.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Issabella, thank you for sharing your Silhouette tutorial. It will work great with my raindrop font, once I perfect the font.

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

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havilson · **Joined:** Aug 10, 2016 **Posts:** 29

Well after a little folder cleanup I figured out what was causing my problem with this script. Another one had a null char in it and was causing the weirdness. Cleaned up and the script appears on my menus.

But now I can't use it since I have the same problem as RJKD and Mahvin.

Is there a way to debug a script-fu script?

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:36 am **(#70)**

well, it looks strange that so many people encounters problems with that script
I just downloaded it from the first page and installed and tried using it with all defaults.
What I did before calling the filter was:
- new image
- select text
- enter my sentence

this is the outcome

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error messages: none

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:44 am **(#71)**

second test with a drawing (on trasparent) over a flat colored BG
again default values

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mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

The same steps on my PC

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:02 am **(#73)**

my environment is:
Windows 10 (up to date)
gimp 2.8.18

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:04 am **(#74)**

just for fun: post here your input .xcf (before calling the script)

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

dinasset wrote:

my environment is:
Windows 10 (up to date)
gimp 2.8.18

Same.

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:13 am **(#76)**

my .xcf before and after (1st test)

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mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Couldn't open either file. It's not in xcf format. Just data files.

havilson · **Joined:** Aug 10, 2016 **Posts:** 29

Hi dinasset.

my environment is:
Windows 10 (up to date)
gimp 2.8.18

Used your input .xcf

Results:

havilson · **Joined:** Aug 10, 2016 **Posts:** 29

mahvin you need to unpack it with 7-Zip.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

I just got the same results as you havilson, with the input file.

I did unpack it with 7-zip, and it dumped the file into appdata, so I extracted it my download folder, viola.