[Gimp-user] gbr viewer

[mgroothuis <forums gimpusers com>]

> This is a long standing annoyance.  In the past I have done this:
>
> 1) Copy all the brushes from the GIMP's system wide 'brushes'
> directory into the user account 'brushes' directory.
>
> 2) Move or rename the system wide 'brushes' directory to make it
> invisible to the GIMP without risk of losing it.
>
> 3) In the GIMP's dockable dialog for brushes, with a blank white
> image canvas open and the brush tool active, work through the brush
> collection checking for and deleting unwanted ones.
>
> An easy way would be to convert all those .gbr files to jpg or png
> with the same names and review those in any image viewer.  But alas...
>
> I was very surprised to find that Imagemagick does not have a
> decoder to read .gbr files, which makes the e-z way to convert all
> those brushes to PNG or other files for more convenient review a
> non-starter.  The GIMP can do this, but I have never waded through
> the details and actually done it because Imagemagick is usually the
> right tool for the job of batch image conversion.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5794640/how-to-convert-xcf-to-png-using-gimp-from-the-command-line
>
> :o/
Thanks Steve. I can see I will have to set some time aside; this is not going to
be done in 5 minutes flat, which is a pity but then again, it teaches me not to
be greedy ;-)

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