Installation
Requirements
- GIMP 2.8 or later
- Python 2.7 or later from the 2.7.x series
Windows
Installer
Simply run the Windows installer and customize plug-in installation path as needed. If you have a portable GIMP installation, you will be prompted to specify the path to GIMP and GIMP plug-ins manually.
Manual installation (ZIP package)
Make sure you have GIMP installed with support for Python scripting.
Copy the following files and folders:
export_layers.py
export_layers
to the folder containing plug-ins depending on your version of GIMP, usually one of the following:
- GIMP 2.8:
C:\Users\[your username]\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins
- GIMP 2.10:
C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins
If you can’t locate the folder, open GIMP, go to “Edit → Preferences → Folders → Plug-Ins” and use one of the listed folders.
Linux
Copy the following files and folders:
export_layers.py
export_layers
to the folder containing plug-ins depending on your version of GIMP, usually one of the following:
- GIMP 2.8:
/home/[your username]/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins
- GIMP 2.10:
/home/[your username]/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins
If you can’t locate the folder, open GIMP, go to “Edit → Preferences → Folders → Plug-Ins” and use one of the listed folders.
To check if the correct version of Python is installed, start GIMP and go to “Filters → Python-Fu → Console”.
The console must display “Python 2.7” or later from the 2.7.x series.
If not, install Python 2.7, open /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/interpreters/pygimp.interp
and change its contents to the following:
python=[path to Python 2.7 executable]
/usr/bin/python=[path to Python 2.7 executable]
:Python:E::py::python:
[path to Python 2.7 executable]
is usually /usr/bin/python
or /usr/bin/python2.7
.
macOS
Copy the following files and folders:
export_layers.py
export_layers
to the folder containing plug-ins depending on your version of GIMP, usually one of the following:
- GIMP 2.8:
/Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/plug-ins
- GIMP 2.10:
/Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins
If you can’t locate the folder, open GIMP, go to “Edit → Preferences → Folders → Plug-Ins” and use one of the listed folders.
Upgrading to 3.3
Due to significant changes in version 3.3, make sure you first perform complete reinstall when upgrading from an earlier version:
- Still using the old version, run Export Layers, select “Settings → Show More Settings”, check “Remove procedures and constraints” and reset settings by pressing the “Reset Settings” button.
- Close Export Layers.
- Close GIMP.
- Remove the
export_layers.py
file and theexport_layers
folder from the installation folder. If you used 3.0-RC1, remove thepygimplib
folder as well. - In the folder above
plug-ins
, openparasiterc
in a text editor and remove the entire line beginning with(parasite "plug_in_export_layers"
. - Run GIMP without Export Layers installed (so that GIMP “forgets” about the plug-in).
- Install the new version.
You can still upgrade to the newest version if you did not perform steps 5 and 6.
A warning dialog will ask you to reset the settings.
However, calling pdb.plug_in_export_layers
from the command line will probably result in an execution error due to the mismatch of arguments.