PTODUMMY(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 PTODUMMY 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this little Perl script is about to save your entire weekend 🫶 it's called ptodummy, and its whole job is creating the missing input photos for you. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ptodummy project.pto

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one file, one dream 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, bestie: ptodummy takes a .pto project and creates missing input photos as necessary. and not me being obsessed with the detail, but every single input photo it makes gets filled with a different colour so you can actually tell them apart — both in the hugin preview and in the stitched output. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🌈

why do you care? because this is genuinely useful for debugging failing .pto projects submitted in bug reports 🐛 the way that you literally do not need the original photos to open and stitch the project in hugin?? that's the whole point. someone drops a cursed project in a bug report, you run this, and boom — you're in. periodt.

heads up though, bestie, two things you gotta know 👀
  • the created images will always be placed in the current working directory, no matter what paths are specified in the project. like, it does not care about your little path plans. cwd or nothing.
  • pre-existing files will not be clobbered. she's respectful. she's not gonna overwrite your stuff. we love a considerate queen 👑

📜 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. slay.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go look at it. iykyk 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bruno Postle — July 2009. a legend, fr fr. she ate and left no crumbs 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this beauty lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, running on perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — so go forth, generate your little rainbow dummies, and debug like the main character you are 🎀✨ bye!! 🦋💖

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