[Gimp-user] how to write a script to automate processing a multi-page PDF file?

[Daryna Baikadamova]

okay, so I use an automated tool (maybe ghostscript) to convert each
page in a PDF file to tiff 300dpi 1-bit BW images named by their page
number.

However in GIMP, are there ways to automatically open all tiff files
in the directory at once?  Then all I need to do for each image is to
erase the logo, save and close the image.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:16 AM, David Gowers <00ai99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Daryna Baikadamova
> <daryna.baikadamova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I want to strip logo from every page of a PDF file and would like a script
> > that:
> >
> > - opens a file (say "foo.pdf", preferably allow me to specify source
> > filename)
> > - specify convert each page to a image with 300dpi resolution
> GIMP currently does not allow you to specify resolution when
> non-interactively loading PDFs.
>
> > - convert all images (all pages) from RGB (or whatever) to indexed 1-bit
> > black and white
> > - save each image with foo_<4 digit page count (i.e. pad the left side with
> > 0>.tiff and specify "CCITT group 4 fax" as the compression algorithm
> >
> > So that when the script finishes, all I have to do is to get rid of the logo
> > by the eraser and click "save" again for each image.
> >
> > Would it be possible to automate the task mentioned above?
> Yes, you could do this with a automation tool such as AutoIt (windows)
> or xdotool (Linux) and a bit of Python scripting.
> However, using ImageMagick instead (and not using GIMP at all for this
> task, except the final editing) in conjunction with Python scriptiing
> might be a less painful way to do this.
>
> David