On Thu 13 Jan 2022 at 19:44:23 (+0100), Siard wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > Finally, using a GUI doesn't scale well. [...] Clicking one's way round > > a GUI can't compete.
> But GIMP works with raster images, so > everything that is vectorized, including text, is transformed to a rasterized > image, causing loss of sharpness and a drastic increase in file size. > So GIMP is just not suitable for this purpose. That's right, and is what I wanted to illustrate, rather than just contradicting the post that suggested it. And in pictures, as well as with the CPU/size statistics. > The GUI is not the problem here. No, not for the OP, who only has one document to rotate. But who wants to repeat « File→Open, Image→Rotate, 90°, OK, Export » a thousand times, even when you're operating on an appropriate object, like a photograph. That's what scripting is for. For example, until bullseye, xzgv (picture viewer) didn't honour the orientation tag, so to make it easier to show pictures without having to press r occasionally, I would create a shadow directory containing mainly symlinks to the real directory, but replacing the link to any misoriented picture with a rotated copy of the original. So easily done, no matter how many pictures, with a script calling jpegexiforient and convert; but so tedious with a GUI. That's why I added the footnote that the method loses its charm when someone else tries to scale it up to a large number of documents. Cheers, David.
