GIMP ditty: change font size and face on every text layer (Shallow Thoughts)

GIMP ditty: change font size and face on every text layer

A silly little GIMP ditty:
I had a Google map page showing locations of lots of metal recycling places in Albuquerque. The Google map shows stars for each location, but to find out the name and location of each address, you have to mouse over each star. I wanted a printable version to carry in the car with me.

I made a screenshot in GIMP, then added text for the stars over the places that looked most promising. But I was doing this quickly, and as I added text for more locations, I realized that it was getting crowded and I wished I'd used a smaller font. How do you change the font size for ALL font layers in an image, all at once?

Of course GIMP has no built-in method for this -- it's not something that comes up very often, and there's no reason it would have a filter like that. But the GIMP PDB (Procedural DataBase, part of the GIMP API) lets you change font size and face, so it's an easy script to write.

In the past I would have written something like this in script-fu, but now that Python is available on all GIMP platforms, there's no reason not to use it for everything.

Changing font face is just as easy as changing size, so I added that as well.

I won't bother to break it down line by line, since it's so simple. Here's the script: changefont.py: Mass change font face and size in all GIMP text layers.