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GIMP interface tuning via GIMP Look Suite 1.0

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How to install custom fonts to GIMP and Inkscape

Language selection

Changing the interface language by using a simple .bat script

Language selection

A lot of applications use the language of OS as default. GIMP and Inkscape do the same. There are some ways to set a particular language.
The most convinient way is the running through .bat script. Also this script could be useful when you have the necessity to often change the interface language.

.bat script creation

This example explains how to create a interface language changing .bat script file for GIMP 2.6.

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Pic. 1. GIMP 2.6 running alorithm though .bat file. English as interface language.

Step 1. In your favorite text editor create new file and copy there the following text:

set lang=en
%SystemDrive%
cd c:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\
start gimp-2.6.exe

Step 2. Depending on the language, GIMP version and the GIMP installation dir the sctipt could be modified.

lang=en

Such line declares a language. In this case the language variable is assigned to "en", i.e. English.
Some languages ISO 639-1 codes:
en - English
de - German
fr - France
it - Italian
ru - Russian
uk - Ukrainian
Full languages codes list

c:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\

The path where application executable is located.

gimp-2.6.exe

The name of application executable.

Step 3. Save the script file. The file name must be followed by ".BAT" extension. For example the English running script file might be named as "GIMP-EN.BAT". Make a shortcut for Desktop.

noteAttention

This way is actual only for multilingual application.

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