GIMP’s Save for Web Plugin for Windows XP

Most of us are guilty of this: opening an executable (.exe) without reading the readme instructions for the file.

But there are .exe files that need no double-clicking.

This one made me looked dumb—GIMP’s Save for Web plugin. After extracting the zipped folder of its contents, I opened webexport.exe only to be greeted with a prompt that says that the application has failed because libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll was not found. This kind of warnings in Windows always freaks me out.

The fact is that, the webexport.exe file needs only to be copied to a personal plugins folder in GIMP—there is no need to double-click it, hence the prompt. Copy webexport.exe and paste it to C:\Documents and Settings\\.gimp-2.6\plug-ins and it’s done.

The screenshot below shows the Save for Web option in GIMP’S File menu once webexport.exe is pasted in the plugins folder.



The Save for Web plugin can be downloaded from GIMP Plugin Registry.