GIMP Plugin Registry

Well, I figured it out for myself by plagiarizing someone else's script. It was a 2 step process. A script was written which takes one file as input in xcf format, 2 values for the x/y scaling factor and a jpeg output file. Here's the script tool:

(define (native-to-jpg width height infile outfile)
(let* (
(hd (car (gimp-message-set-handler 1)))
(img (car (gimp-file-load 1 infile infile)))
(drawable (car (gimp-image-active-drawable img))))
(gimp-image-scale img width height)
(file-jpeg-save 1 img drawable outfile outfile 0.8 0 1 1 "No comment!" 0 1 0 0)
)
)

(script-fu-register
"native-to-jpg"
"/Xtns/Script-Fu/Tools/Native-to-Jpg"
"Native-to-Jpg"
""
"my name"
"2008-03-24"
""
SF-VALUE "Width" "100"
SF-VALUE "Height" "100"
SF-FILENAME "Infile" "infile.xcf"
SF-FILENAME "Outfile" "outfile.jpg"
)

Once I had this I could process a single file at a time within gimp. Next I wrote a shell script that walked through a directory, found all of the files I wanted, passed them through gimp using the script I had written along with some parameters for the x/y scale factors and the output file name (along with a directory name). Here's the shell script:

#!/bin/sh
outDir=jpgDir
inDir=./
xAspect=1000
yAspect=1000

while [ "$1" != "" ] # When there are arguments...
do
case $1
in
-i) inDir=$2; # If it's a "-i", set input directory name
shift 2;; # Shift two argument along
-o) outDir=$2; # If it's a "-o", set output directory name
shift 2;; # Shift two argument along
-r) xAspect=$2; # If it's a "-r", set X aspect and Y aspect
yAspect="$3";
shift 3;; # Shift three argument along
*) echo "Option [$1] not one of [i ,o, r]"; # Error (!)
exit;; # Abort Script Now
esac
done

mkdir -p $outDir
for file in *.xcf; do
echo Working on file: $file
newFile="$(echo "$file" | sed 's/xcf/jpg/')"
echo output File: $newFile
gimp --display :1.0 -c -d -b\
'(native-to-jpg '$xAspect' '$yAspect' "'$file'" "'$outDir'/'$newFile'")'\
-b '(gimp-quit 0)'
done

You need to make sure you have a frame buffer server running on the same display output designated in the call to "gimp". In this case :1.0. You can do this by running this command before starting the scripts:
Xvfb :1 -screen 0 10x10x8

this will run the frame buffer on screen 0 in a very minimal memory configuration.

Anyways, I'm hoping to get people to comment on my method for doing this. It works but I can't say if this is the best way.

Cheers!!