Hello list. I should probably preface this by saying that I *am* running Gentoo Linux on the box that's having this problem, so it's entirely possible that my problems are related to that somehow. My system's pretty vanilla, though, and it doesn't look like Gentoo's doing any patching on the 2.4.1 Gimp build.
Anyway, I'm using Gimp 2.4.1, and I've encountered a problem where Gimp isn't saving the layer dimensions in its .XCF files, so that when the file is opened, Gimp gives the error: XCF: This file is corrupt! I have loaded as much of it as I can, but it is incomplete. I haven't yet figured out exactly what causes this to happen - some images I have don't exhibit this behavior, though most do. I've gone so far as to open up a file that I had created with an older version of Gimp and re-save it without any edits. When I compare the two files, there are only a few bytes that differ, and it turns out that it's the dimensions which are showing up as "0" instead of the proper dimensions. You can see that at this URL: http://apocalyptech.com/media/gimp/ * goinonboat.xcf is a file I had created in an earlier version of Gimp * goinonboat2.xcf is the file I re-saved. * dimension.png contains all of the binary differences between the two. The file is 640x480 (which in hex is 0x0280 by 0x01E0). I had been experiencing this issue on Gimp 2.4.0 as well. I had been using the 2.3 versions as well, for awhile, and it may have been occurring then without me noticing. I've been looking around mailing list archives and forums, and I haven't seen anybody else with this problem, so I assume that it's something particular to my system. Also, if I open up one of these corrupt files which only has one layer, I get the following on the console: (gimp:9090): Gimp-Core-CRITICAL **: gimp_layer_new: assertion `width > 0' failed Specifying --verbose when running gimp doesn't produce any extra relevant output. If anyone's got any ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks! -CJ -- WOW: Flemmy | "The ships hung in the sky in much the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] | way that bricks don't." - Douglas Adams, 24.24.2.3171 | _The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy_ _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
