Side-bar.scm is a Script-Fu script that I wrote because I was tired of generating the headings for my side-bar based web site by hand. The Gimp is a powerful tool for creating nice-looking text, but generating and re-generating headings quickly becomes tiresome. With the side-bar script, you can easily create a side-bar image with a series of headings. Experimenting with different colors and text fonts is simple and quick.

Features of the side-bar script:

  • Generates side-bar with drop-shadow, suitable for use as a web background image
  • Generates side-bar headings with hilight images
  • Can auto-save all images to disk as GIF files
  • All colors and text font fully configurable
The Script-Fu interaction window looks like this: 

Two images for each heading are generated -- one in the text color and one in the highlight color. If "Save to disk?" is selected, the heading images and the side-bar image will be saved to the specified directory. Filenames are taken from the heading strings. Any spaces in a string are converted to underscores (for example, "Hi There" would be saved as "hi_there.gif") Heading hilight image filenames have "_hl" tacked on the end ("hi_there_hl.gif"). The side-bar image is saved as "side-bar.gif". 

The side-bar script is freely distributable. If you use it to create web pages, please put a note somewhere on the page acknowledging the use of the script and including a link to this page: http://nostatic.org/gimp/gimp-sidebar.shtml

Ok, enough of my rambling on. You probably want the script, so here it is: 

Download side-bar.scm

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