IGLO - Images Grid LayOut

Easy way to print multiple photos on single paper

Simply open your images in the Gimp, run the script and print created grid

Brief description

  • IGLO is a Gimp script.
  • Script merges multiple images to another one with grid layout.
  • You can use it for printing multiple photos on single paper, creating posters, wallpaper, CD/DVD covers, etc.
  • You can duplicate images in final grid to print visit-card, etc.
  • Script use as many as possible opened images according defined grid cell count.
  • Size of grid cell, count of grid cell, count of rows and columns is calculated automatically, or defined by user settings.

Download ver. 1.0 (23.3.2008)

  • please send me a feedback to email: sooaai(a)centrum(dot)cz
  • last change - new feature - duplication of images
  • detail changelog is inside script file

Install and use

  • Install Gimp - IGLO is tested with version 2.4.5
  • Place script in your ~/.gimp-2.4/scripts, or [gimphome]/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/
  • Run Gimp and open your images for printing
  • Run script from main Gimp menu /Xtns/Misc/Images Grid Layout
  • Set your specific settings in opened dialog and click OK
  • Print created image

Possible settings

There is lot of settings, but you can only open images, and run the script without any special setting.
  1. size of new image from standard paper sizes or set manually width and height in pixels or millimeters
  2. user defined size of grid cell (a place for one image)
  3. units for size values
  4. DPI of new image
  5. set amount of image duplication (you can duplicate one or more images)
  6. count of rows and columns in grid of images (size of grid sell will be calculated and images will be automatically scaled)
  7. distance between grid cells
  8. script duplicates last image to epmty cells if you set more grid cells then opened images
  9. automatic image rotation for best orientation in grid cell
  10. automatic change of image aspect ratio to grid cell aspect ration
  11. type of interpolation (cubic, linear, none) and supersampling for scaling
  12. flatten visible layers in new image (you can do additional changes to arranged images, if you uncheck the setting [for example: you can hide some layer with image to print grid without it])
  13. color of foreground (color of empty grid cell)
    color of background (color of paper, IOW: color of space between grid cells)
settings
BTW: sry 4 my terrible english ;)
example1
Script preserves aspect ratio of images

example2
You can allow changing of aspect ratio

example5
You can print as many images as you want

example7
You can set exact count of rows and columns in the images grid

example8
You can duplicate images on final grid (open 3 images and set parameter "Duplicate image(s) x-times" to 3)

example6
You can create empty grid with specified count of columns and rows - width of wire is minimal space between images

Please send me a feedback
email: sooaai(a)centrum(dot)cz

počítadlo.abz.cz
since 23.3.2008