Canvas to Selection PyGIMP Script
While in the process of writing an overly complicated script that should resize a GIMP image canvas in a way that will show what a photo print will look like, I remembered this thing that one time I thought would be nice for GIMP to be able to do. Automatically reduce the canvas to fit the current selection.
adjusting an image for a specific display area
subtitled: what I did during the heatwave here....
The task is to make several different sizes of images look good on my desktop. I am using a LCD display that is really wide compared to what I am used to seeing. It is really beautiful. Either staring at the CRT screen finally destroyed my eyes enough that LCD seems to look good now or perhaps the technology has improved and it actually does look good now. Whatever is the cause of the beauty of this display, I certainly wanted to dig out some of the images from APOD and use them as my desktop image again and they really needed a little resizing, scaling and other love to look just right.
Then I remembered that I don't have a calculator yet....
What not to do to make things work for your new LCD Monitor
I used a yardstick because I did not have a piece of 35mm film laying around.
GIMP calls it "windowing system". At the commandline, this information can be found in one line out of perhaps thousands of lines of the spew which is created when you type xwdpyinfo. For all of the CRT I used, it was never correct.
At the same time I was working through this, I saw a movie at a theater which had a display that was almost the same as this new LCD display I am using with this computer (only bigger).
php web pages
Not GIMP related, but still an interesting apache hack.