On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 21:03 +0100, mal content wrote: > On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know :<( I thought you meant a sentence or two. Gimp is not the > > optimum approach for long text passages IMO. Sounds more like a job > > for a page layout program or even html. What kind of files are they? > > Are they intended for online use? > > > > Well what it basically is, is a CD cover and booklet. The > cover and booklet conform to an image template so that they > print the correct size and with correct margins at a given > DPI. > > The covers are being produced for a range of CDs (the layout > is the same on each disks but the images are different). > The first page of every booklet lists credits and other > information and these now have to be changed en masse as > the text has been rewritten. > > I suppose I could export the covers to a page layout program > but that would take a lot of work and would complicate our > release process quite a bit. > > I'm not averse to the idea of writing a program to make > these transformations in C, but I'm not aware of the > existence of a 'libxcf' or equivalent to access the file > format and I really don't want to have to do my own > parsing! > > cheers, > MC
You should check out Swiss File Knife. It's a sed-like program that works on binaries as well as text. Just be sure to back up your original data. http://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife ~B _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
