[ILUG] Slightly OT - tool for creating not imagemap but table?

[John Allman]

John Allman wrote:

> Padraig Brady wrote:
>
>> Padraig Brady wrote:
>>
>>> Padraig Brady wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Allman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi - this isn't directly linux based (although i'd like the tool 
>>>>> to run under linux) but here's hoping. I've seen a lot of tools 
>>>>> out there with graphical interfaces for making client side html 
>>>>> imagemaps. What i'm looking for is something similar but instead 
>>>>> of making an imagemap, breaks up the image into smaller images and 
>>>>> puts them back together in a html table. I've googled and searched 
>>>>> on freshmeat but i keep finding places where they recommend tables 
>>>>> instead of imagemaps or tools to make imagemaps but never what i'm 
>>>>> looking for. I'm thinking it should be possible using ImageMagick 
>>>>> but so far no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? At the moment the person doing 
>>>>> this is painstakingly splitting the images up in photoshop and 
>>>>> writing the table by hand. It hurts me inside to watch him when 
>>>>> i'm sure this could be automated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2001-November/039297.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oops, don't mind me, the last paragraph of the above, references
>>> tools to convert a picture to html (table) completely (which
>>> is what I thought you meant).
>>>
>>> All I can suggest since I am talking is looking for
>>> a gimp plugin. There's one in the standard distribution
>>> for creating image maps so there may be others for
>>> what you want.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is something like this what you want?
>> http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=1612
>>
>> Padraig.
>>
> Very close. however i think that just breaks it up into blocks of a 
> particular size, whichi think ronans script would do.i've found a 
> plugin called perlotine available here: 
> http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/perl/gimp-perl.html but this appears not 
> to work for me. i get a
> "LibGimp-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read: unexpected EOF"
> every time i try to run with it in my plug-ins directory and it 
> doesn't show up under xtns->perl-fu. I looked for this error on google 
> and one person was relating it to libpng. i have libpng3-1.2.4.
> i'm not even sure this would do it...
>
> thanks
>
> John.
>
>
When using the version of perlotine from 
http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=427 i get the following errors:
 perlotine: argument name 'Save Path' contains illegal characters, only 
0-9, a-z and _ allowed at /home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl 
line 165
perlotine: argument name 'HTML File Name' contains illegal characters, 
only 0-9, a-z and _ allowed at 
/home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl line 165
perlotine: argument name 'Image Base-name' contains illegal characters, 
only 0-9, a-z and _ allowed at 
/home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl line 165
perlotine: argument name 'Separate image dir?' contains illegal 
characters, only 0-9, a-z and _ allowed at 
/home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl line 165
perlotine: argument name 'Relative Image Path' contains illegal 
characters, only 0-9, a-z and _ allowed at 
/home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl line 165
perlotine: argument name 'Capitalize tags?' contains illegal characters, 
only 0-9, a-z and _ allowed at 
/home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl line 165
perlotine: argument name 'Cell Spacing' contains illegal characters, 
only 0-9, a-z and _ allowed at 
/home/john/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/perlotine.pl line 165
maybe i'll be able to hack the plugin...

thanks

John