Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

["Ethan A. Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> On July 21, 2018 8:21:10 AM "Ethan A. Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > I just had to crop a bunch of images in the Gimp, and recalled how much I
> > prefer doing it in Plan 9; it's so much less frustrating. In the Gimp, it's
> > either a matter of estimating numbers (for a quick, casual job on visual
> > media), or select, copy, paste into new window. In the latter case, when
> > you save it, you have to find the directory and the file8749832710473name;
> > not fun. Also, I'm not practised at this; I'm no good at cropping with my
> > brain, so I had to zoom, resize the window, and select very carefully so
> > selecting didn't move the image in the window.
> >
> > In Plan 9, which isn't even made for the job, it's not without its
> > frustrations, but it's got fewer of them than the Gimp. Open the image in
> > page; use the plumber or otherwise enter the full path so you can
> > copy/paste it later. Zoom and adjust the window as you like. In another
> > window, grep for the filename (or the directory, or whatever,) in
> > /dev/wsys/*/label, and type cd and send the directory part. (Of course,
> > copy/paste or send the file name.) Then:
> >     crop -i 4 window | topng > path/filename.png
> > This is the part where you'll likely want to copy the full original path.
> > That's one done. On to the next image, which presumably is open in the same
> > instance of page so you don't have to cd or anything. `cat label` to get
> > its full name and path. (It's possible only 9front's page puts the path in
> > the label, I don't know.)
>
> To be fair, if you're using a command line, you might as well be using
> ImageMagick (not criticizing your points or anything, just playing devil's
> advocate).

`crop -i 4` is just to get rid of the window border. The actual selection of the region of image to crop to, in Plan 9, has nothing to do with the command line.