On 12/18/2009 03:16 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: > >> If I were a developer, with the necessary skills, I would be curious >> about what was killing off the plugin and why the plugin dieing >> (especially when it was just trying to open a dialog and had not >> actually attempted to take action on the image yet) would leave the >> whole program in a potentially unstable state. > > The message that tells you about the dying plug-in is just a general > dialog. It says that GIMP 'might' have been left in an unstable state. > In general this is not the case and there's nothing to worry about > here. > > I have written the plug-in that crashed, and I can tell what's most > likely going wrong, without having a look at the code or your broken > image. The assumption that the plug-in would not have accessed the image > before it opens the dialog is wrong, since the plug-in needs to read the > color profile from the image in order to present information about the > current color profile to the user. If the attached profile is corrupt, > then it may crash at this point. I don't really care about fixing this > for all sorts of corrupt input data. Such a fix would most likely > introduce regressions and would make the code much more difficult to > read and maintain. > > You can probably get the plug-in to do its job of removing the attached > color profile by calling the plug-in procedure non-interactively. Or you > could simply remove the "icc-profile" parasite from the image. > > > Sven
Sven, Thank you very much for this information. It is very helpful. When I originally searched for information about how to do this, before I posted, I came across a discussion of the subject -- and you were a participant. But, what I have _not_ found information about how to do is: a) Call the plug-in procedure non-interactively b) Use gimp_image_parasite_detach -- I am not sure in what environment this is used, etc. I found http://authors.phptr.com/essential/gimp/appE/gimp_image_parasite_detach.html but can't figure out how to run it (from the command line does not work). c) "simply remove the "icc-profile" parasite from the image" as you suggest. This is what I wanted to do all along, from the very start, but somehow my searching is not finding instructions. I must not be searching with the correct search terms. Any advice would be appreciated. By the way, if possible, I would like to do this parasite removal on tens of thousands of files. Perhaps as the 'exec' of a 'find' command. Thanks! Jay _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
