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Export/Save All Open Images In GIMP

Posted by AntumDeluge on December 20, 2017
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Introduction: (top)

At times, in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), I have many images open that I am editing at one time. Manually exporting/saving images using the menu or hotkeys can be a tedious task in a situation like this. So, I began looking for a solution that would save changes of all open images at once. The answer that I found was a GIMP Script, a.k.a. Script-Fu, file (.scm) floating around on the web. The original script appears to have been written in 2006. I have tested it with GIMP version 2.8.22 on MacOS 10.10.5.

The Script: (top)

Original: (top)

There are a few different versions of the script available. I believe the original, by Saul Goode, was posted here on this GIMP Nabble forum. However, I got the script from this answer on Stack Overflow. Content is the same, just some changes in the comment line breaks. This is the content of the script I have used:

; This program is free software
; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
; it under the terms of the GNU General Public 
; License as published by 
; the Free Software Foundation
; either version 2 of the License, or 
; (at your option) any later version. 
; 
; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
; GNU General Public License for more details. 

(define (script-fu-save-all-images) 
  (let* ((i (car (gimp-image-list))) 
         (image)) 
    (while (> i 0) 
      (set! image (vector-ref (cadr (gimp-image-list)) (- i 1))) 
      (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE 
                      image 
                      (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image)) 
                      (car (gimp-image-get-filename image)) 
                      (car (gimp-image-get-filename image))) 
      (gimp-image-clean-all image) 
      (set! i (- i 1))))) 

(script-fu-register "script-fu-save-all-images" 
 "<Image>/File/Save ALL" 
 "Save all opened images" 
 "Saul Goode" 
 "Saul Goode" 
 "11/21/2006" 
 "" 
 )

Other Versions: (top)

(As of this writing, I have not tested these versions)

  • A version, modified by Lauchlin Wilkinson, that prompts for base name, directory, etc. can be found here.
  • It appears that a version was posted on gimpscripts.org in 2015, but the site is currently unreachable.

Installation: (top)

To install, save the script contents to a text file & give it the .scm filename extension. Mine is saved as saveall.scm. Place the file in GIMP’s scripts directory.

GIMP Scripts Directory Locations:

  • Linux:
    • ~/.gimp-＜version＞/scripts
  • MacOS:
    • ~/Library/Application Support/GIMP/＜version＞/scripts
  • Windows (Vista & newer):
    • GIMP 2.8 & older:
      • C:\Users\＜username>\.gimp-＜version＞\scripts
    • GIMP 2.9:
      • C:\Users\＜username＞\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\＜version＞\scripts
  • Windows (XP):
    • C:\Documents and Settings\＜username＞\.gimp-＜version＞\scripts

So, on my MacOS system, the file is located here:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/scripts/saveall.scm

Once installed, restart GIMP. If it loads correctly, the menu option File → Save ALL will be available:

GIMP Save All

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