Topic: Gimp + javascript? (Page 1 of 1)

So I'm back to playing around with the Google Maps API and including custom map tiles in place of Google's. Got the basics figured out and can build my map and get my tiles to show up where they should be.

All good so far. The problem is there's going to be maybe thousands of tiles to cut from the main overall image. I haven't done the math yet and the image isn't completed, so I'm not sure just how many images there will be, but it's safe to say it's a lot.

I've found this: http://mapki.com/index.php?title=Automatic_Tile_Cutter
But that's for PS, and from the searching I've done so far, there's not a way to use javascript in Gimp, so it's not as simple as porting that script.

Does anyone know if:
1) there's a way to use javascript in Gimp?
2) it'd be relatively straight-forward to port it to perl to run in Gimp's perl plugin (keeping in mind I've never used perl before... Blasphemy, I know...)?
3) there's a way to use the 'script-fu' plugin in Gimp to do something equivalent to that script (again, I've never used it before either)?

Thanks much for anyone that can point me in the right direction here,
LF

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

well, cutting slices from a (huge) image shouldn't be too much scripting anywhere,
you can pretty much straight forward translate that script to either perl or python for
GiMP, it's just a bit tedious.

Guess you could even do it in image magic...

I'd use ImageMagick.

convert foo.png -crop 100x100 bar.png