Scaler biAkima

A GIMP plugin that scales an image using Akima spline instead of cubic interpolation method.

This plugin is based on GIMP plugin Ogniewski Scaler

Examples and Compare

Examples and comparison with other scaling methods.

Building the Plugin

Ubuntu

On Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on ARM64 in a VM on an M1 MacBook Air, the following installs were needed

sudo apt install gimp
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install libgimp2.0-dev
sudo apt install autoconf automake autotools-dev m4

Installing GIMP via snap can have some problems with accessing the plugins folder.

In the Scaler biAkima root directory, run

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Windows

The plugin can be built for Windows using mingw, here given for 64bit x86. I'm not quite sure if all these steps are needed, since I tried stuff untill it worked.

Install msys2 and run "MSYS2 MinGW x64". Update the system using

pacman -Syyuu

Restart the terminal.

Install the following dependencies (TODO I suspect many of these are not needed, i took them from here which is for building the GIMP)

pacman -S --needed \
    base-devel \
    git \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-asciidoc \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-drmingw \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-gexiv2 \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-ghostscript \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-glib-networking \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-graphviz \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2 \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-gobject-introspection \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-iso-codes \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-json-c \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-json-glib \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-lcms2 \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-lensfun \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-libheif \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-libraw \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-libspiro \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-libwebp \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-libwmf \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-meson \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-mypaint-brushes \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-openexr \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-poppler \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-python2-pygtk \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-suitesparse \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-xpm-nox

Set variables

export GIMP_PREFIX=`realpath ~/gimp_prefix`
export PATH="$GIMP_PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$GIMP_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$GIMP_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$GIMP_PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

#environment variable for Autotools
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I/c/msys64/mingw64/share/aclocal"
#environment variable for introspection
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$GIMP_PREFIX/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/mingw64/share/"

Install GIMP package

pacman -S --needed mingw-w64-x86_64-gimp

The plugin template requires the perl module XML::Parser for the internationalization, this is what I installed. I supect not all of them are needed

pacman -S --needed mingw-w64-x86_64-perl # Don't think this was required

# A mess where I try to get XML::Parser to find the expat dependency
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-expat
pacman -S libexpat-devel
pacman -S libexpat

Nothing seemed to work, but then I restarted the terminal, and then it worked

cpan App::cpanminus # For cpanm
cpanm XML::Parser

Finally, build the plugin using

# The -mwindows flag to the linker makes sure no command window is opened
./configure LDFLAGS=-mwindows
make
make install

in the root directory of this repo. To use the plugin, copy src/scaler-biakima.exe to the GIMP plugin folder, available in the preferences.

Based on: GIMP Plug-In Template

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Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Michael Natterer [email protected]

This package is an empty plug-in for GIMP 2.0. It features all the nice things a good GIMP plug-in should have:

• The source is separated in main/interface/render files (core/ui separation).
• It's prepared for I18N.
• It installs it's own help files.
• Full autoconf/automake support.
• A dialog with examples of all libgimp widgets.

Basically everything a Plug-In author should ever need except her own image manupulation routines.

To build and install it, just ...

./configure
make
make install

... and it's there.

And don't forget to remove (or update if really necessary) comments for translators in po/README.translators.

The default license for the gimp-plugin-template is an ultra-permissive XFree-style license to encourage the use of the template for GPL /or/ non-GPL plugins. If you wish to use a different license for your plugin (e.g. GPL) then you may change the license block in the 'COPYING' file and the source to your favourite license.

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

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