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Thanks in advance and sorry for sending this to the whole list. Bye On 7/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Send Gimp-user mailing list submissions to > gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Gimp-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. (mal content) > 2. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. > (John R. Culleton) > 3. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. (mal content) > 4. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. > (Bruce Bertrand) > 5. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. (Sven Neumann) > 6. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. > (John R. Culleton) > 7. Re: Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files. (Simon Budig) > 8. Adventures in MacPorts Land (continued) (Victor Domingos) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:05 +0100 > From: "mal content" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are on a Linux or similar platform something along the lines of > > awk or sed could be possible approaches. I quote from an old > > manual: > > "The advantages of sed are that it can apply the same editing comands > > to many files; it can edit a large file quickly; and it can readily > > be used with pipes." > > Yes, the thing I was worried about though is damaging the > binary files. The text I wish to replace the original text > with is about twice the length of the original. Is the > xcf file format flexible enough to really allow editing > in this way? > > thanks, > MC > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:25:45 -0400 > From: "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: > > On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you are on a Linux or similar platform something along the > > > lines of awk or sed could be possible approaches. I quote from > > > an old manual: > > > "The advantages of sed are that it can apply the same editing > > > comands to many files; it can edit a large file quickly; and it > > > can readily be used with pipes." > > > > Yes, the thing I was worried about though is damaging the > > binary files. The text I wish to replace the original text > > with is about twice the length of the original. Is the > > xcf file format flexible enough to really allow editing > > in this way? > > > > thanks, > > MC > > 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? > > > -- > John Culleton > ATTN Publishers/authors: > If you don't read you don't succeed. > Free short list of publishing/marketing books. > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:03:43 +0100 > From: "mal content" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:49:43 -0400 > From: Bruce Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:03:15 +0200 > From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: mal content <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:11 +0100, mal content wrote: > > > I have a large number of xcf files that have a section of > > text embedded in them. Is there a tool or method available > > to safely and reliably modify this text (replace it with > > other text) from the shell, or some other interface that > > doesn't require me to open 100 or so files in Gimp*? > > We are still lacking a proper PDB API for text layer and without this > you can't do what you are asking for. Hopefully someone will contribute > this missing part at some point. > > > Sven > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:36:20 -0400 > From: "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Thursday 26 July 2007, 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. > > I suggest that the cover art is a good Gimp application but the > booklets aren't. An application such as TeX (e.g, Context) could > prepare those pages. If art work or backgrounds etc. were needed > they could be prepared via Gimp or a drawing program and incorporated > as needed on the pages. But gimp would not be used to create the > final image to go to the printer. That way you would have the > flexibiilty to substitute text in a batch editor program like sed > and have the pages adjust automatically. Margins are easily > controlled in a layout program and dpi is not really a factor with > text. > > I am afraid that you may have painted yourself into a corner by using > gimp as a page layout program. That is not its strength. If you > send me a sample of one of the bookets I will see what I can do with > a conversion program. > > -- > John Culleton > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:20:02 +0200 > From: Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf > files. > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > John R. Culleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: > > > Is there a tool or method available > > > to safely and reliably modify this text (replace it with > > > other text) from the shell, or some other interface that > > > doesn't require me to open 100 or so files in Gimp*? > > > > If you are on a Linux or similar platform something along the lines of > > awk or sed could be possible approaches. > > You would end up with invalid xcf files. Even if you could replace the > text without damaging the file structure your image still would look the > same, since even text layers are stored as pixels. The text you find in > the xcf file is metainformation that would get used if you'd change the > text in the gimp and thus would force gimp to re-render the text layer. > > So basically the only tool being able to effectively change the text is > the Gimp itself. And - as Sven mentioned - since we unfortunately do not > have a PDB API for this functionality it is impossible to create a > script to let gimp do this. > > Bye, > Simon > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:55:50 +0100 > From: Victor Domingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Gimp-user] Adventures in MacPorts Land (continued) > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Hi! I tryed to contact the fontconfig port maintainer, but had no > responde yet. Meanwhile, I have uninstalled macports and tryed it all > from start. I reinstalled MP and tryed to build gimp-dev again. > Everything seemed to go ok, but I was not able to run it. Like a > friend of mine, I get the following error message: > > ---------------- > > $/opt/local/gimp-2.3/bin/gimp-2.3 > process 23395: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed > to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/opt/local/var/lib/dbus/machine- > id": No such file or directory > See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. > D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a > backtrace > Abort trap > > > ------------------ > > Does anyone have any idea about what this means? > > Thanks in advance. I am sending an email to the port maintainer. > Let's see. > > Victor Domingos > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > > End of Gimp-user Digest, Vol 58, Issue 35 > ***************************************** >
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