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rcrsn51 · Updated 2017-01-05

Update: Graphic images are sometimes distributed as PDF files, so PeasyGlue v1.9 now accepts this format for input. Also, there is a new Print button. It sends the final glued image directly to PeasyPrint v2.5. To save time, the temporary raw PNM data is used instead of the JPEG/PNG file.

Update: PeasyGlue v1.8 lets you pick the amount of spacing between images. Note: The program has now moved to /usr/local/bin/peasyglue from /usr/sbin/peasyglue. Make sure that you are running the correct version. Delete the old one if necessary.

Update: Here is a money-saving tip for people who print their own digital photos. If your camera is set at the 4:3 aspect ratio, you can glue two photos together into a 4:6 image that is the exact size for photo paper.

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PeasyGlue is a little app for joining graphic files together into rows or columns. By combining several rows vertically, you can also create a grid of images.

You can select images by using the File Chooser buttons. But it's easier to just drag files directly into the PeasyGlue input boxes.

To make a shortcut, drag the file /usr/share/applications/peasyglue.desktop onto the desktop.

PeasyGlue creates some large temporary files, which are normally stored in /tmp. When working with big graphics files, you may run out of space, and gluing will fail. Here is a work-around.

1. Create the hidden file /root/.peasyglue
2. Enter the path of a location with lots of space, like /mnt/home
3. Save the file.
4. PeasyGlue will now use that temporary location instead of /tmp.

anikin · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 982

rcrsn51,

This is one nifty app!
Makes posting images in a forum painless.
Thank you very much.

L18L

rcrsn51

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 917

rcrsn51,

What a nice, handy, and compact image combiner. (It's very useful to me because I can never remember how to combine images using mtPaint.) Very Happy

I assume the "glued" image could also be saved to a .png instead of .jpg by using "pnmtopng".

Another useful tool in the "Peasy" series, thank you.

Regards,
s

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 10 Mar 2013, 13:47 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 10 May 2013, 22:34 Post subject:

PeasyGlue v1.4 has a new feature for making grid images like this:

charlie6 · Posted: Thu 04 Jul 2013, 14:57 Post subject:

Hi rcrsn51,
thanks again ...great !!
here is the french tar.gz file ...
enjoy!

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 05 Jul 2013, 07:28 Post subject:

Thanks. I noticed that you used PeasyGlue here. Wink

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

I LOVE this app but for me on Slacko 5.5 it does not append the file extension?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 05 Jul 2013, 13:30 Post subject:

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 19 May 2014, 08:43 Post subject:

PeasyGlue v1.6 is posted above.

charlie6 · Posted: Wed 04 Jun 2014, 03:34 Post subject: Re: PeasyGlue

Hi Bill,

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 04 Jun 2014, 07:03 Post subject:

You are right - the Aspect button is not well documented. It only works AFTER you have glued some images together.

I wrote it mainly to use with the Pattern feature. Suppose I make a pattern and want to print it on Letter paper using PeasyPrint. And I want it to fill the page.

With PeasyPrint, you can scale the width or height, but not both. It never changes the aspect ratio of the image. So if I want my pattern to fill the page without getting cropped, I need some information in advance about how to place it on the paper.

Printing images on photo paper is not a problem. I can use RPhoto and crop to the exact aspect ratio I need.

I recognize that the Aspect feature is not much value to an A4 user like yourself. Maybe I should remove the confusing Aspect button and only show that information after making a pattern.

I'm curious. In Europe is photo paper still 4x6, or do you buy a metric version?

Bill