IGLO - Images Grid LayOut

Easy way to print multiple photos on single paper

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 uses as many as possible opened images according defined grid cell count.
• Size of grid cell, count of grid cell, count of rows and columns are calculated automatically, or defined by user settings.

Download ver. 1.8 (22. 2. 2016)

• Fixed issue with repeating images
• IGLO is on GitHub now - please feel free to submit an issue or even pull request

Install and use

• Install Gimp - IGLO is tested with version 2.10
• Download and unpack (untar) archive - on MS Windows you can use 7zip, TotalCommander, etc.
• Place script in your ~/.gimp-2.10/scripts, or [gimphome]/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/, or ~/snap/gimp/94/.config/GIMP/2.10/scripts/ (in case you use snaps)
• Run Gimp and open your images for printing
• Run script from main Gimp menu /Tools/Images Grid Layout (at least one image must be loaded!)
• Set your specific settings in opened dialog, or let it default and click OK
• Print created image

Script settings

1. size of new image from standard paper sizes or set manually width and height in pixels, millimeters or inches
2. size of paper margin - empty space around paper
3. user defined maximum size of images on the paper(size of place for image in the grid)
4. minimal distance between grid cells
5. units for size values
6. DPI of new image
7. repeat every single source image x-times on final paper
8. count of rows and columns in grid of images (size of grid sell will be calculated and images will be automatically scaled)
9. positioning strategy - snap image to paper edge, or center image in the grid cell
10. automatic image rotation for best orientation in grid cell
11. automatic change of image aspect ratio to grid cell aspect ratio
12. repeat last image to fill empty cells
13. 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])
14. color of foreground (color of empty grid cell)
    color of background (color of paper, IOW: color of space between grid cells)

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You can allow changing of aspect ratio

You can print as many images as you want

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

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

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