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Issue with GIMP scripts - Debian Trixie (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi, all. I'm trying to use the logo creator scripts in GIMP under Debian Trixie. Standard apt install, using Debian sources, including gimp-data-extras, which is the package with the scripts. The packages are all up to date.

When I try to run any of the logo scripts, I get an error message like this:

Execution error for 'Alien Glow': Error: eval: unbound variable: gimp-text-fontname

I've done some searching, and the results all say things like, "Oh, your script is missing..." or something like that. But it's not my script, it's a standard script with GIMP. All of the logo scripts give this error, on two different computers (both with Debian Trixie).

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

It's having an issue with a value. This explains it so I don't need to write a novel: https://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6756

Some of the default values in Gimp Scripts are bad, and it's kind of a crapshoot.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    I tried editing one of them to change the -1 in the gimp-text-fontname call to None, then Null. Restarted GIMP after each change, but I'm still getting the error.

    But it sounds like it's an error in the GIMP distribution...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think you need to directly edit the script if that's what you mean. You want to edit the values in the plug-in menu so it's not out of bounds. Those get passed to the script, which then executes.

    You probably need the direct error instead of this raised exception. Start Gimp from a terminal, trigger the error, and see if the terminal error is showing exactly what the script's error is.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, the message in the terminal isn't helpful:

    scriptfu-Message: 19:50:36.837: Error while executing script-fu-alien-glow-logo:

    That's it. There's no additional info.

    I just downloaded the Gimp appimage, but it doesn't have the logo generation scripts in it. I feel like they've been abandoned and no one noticed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well poking around, it seems that specific plugin was only meant for Gimp 2.10, and you must be on 3.0+ by now, so I would consider it unusable.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    Ah that would do it. Disappointing. But thanks for the suggestions and finding that.

    Yeah 3.0 on Trixie.

    Sounds like that gimp-data-extras package shouldn't apply to 3.x. So maybe that's the fundamental problem.

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