GPANO2PTO(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ GPANO2PTO ✨

okay so this is gpano2pto(1) — a little User Contributed Perl Documentation moment, one of those lil scripts someone just... dropped into the perl bin and now it's iconic 💅

💖 NAME 💖

gpano2pto — bestie, this thing takes a Google photosphere and inserts it into a Hugin project. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gpano2pto /path/to/PANO_20140225_134632.jpg
/path/to/PANO_20140225_134812.jpg [...]

Options: None. nope. zero. not a single flag, and honestly? she doesn't need one. 👑

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so gpano2pto is a simple tool (simple = no drama, we love her for it) that does a lil three-step routine:

  1. reads the GPano XMP tags hiding inside your JPEG panorama files 🔍
  2. calculates the field of view and the crop offsets — the math is mathing ✨
  3. creates Hugin .pto projects with the photograph inserted correctly 🫶

and why do we care? because this unlocks further processing of your panoramas, like:

  • levelling
  • changing projection
  • cropping

not me being obsessed with a script that just does the right thing. 😭

lowkey the best part: partial panoramas are supported. so this tool does the right thing with panoramas that are less than 360 degrees, AND with panoramas that have horizon lines above or below the middle of the image. she's flexible, she's understanding, she's the moment. 🌈

👑 LICENSE 👑

this program is free software — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. periodt. 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

💫 AUTHOR 💫

Bruno Postle — March 2014.

okay bye bestie, go make some panoramas 💖 and for the record, this lil page comes from perl v5.42.0 and it's dated 2025-07-25 — GPANO2PTO(1) fr fr 🎀✨

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