On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:33:57 +1800, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Thufir <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> Pardon the delayed response. I get the gist of what you're saying, and >> that's what I tried to do from the get-go. >> >> What I mean is that when re-open a file from gimp I can't seem to >> "select" the text, which I previously wrote and inserted, to delete or >> modify it. > > An important thing to note: when you've opened the PDF in GIMP, the > vector and text information is lost - you've "ripped" it into an image, > and at that point you will have to treat it as an image (as opposed to a > PDF). The size and res dialog you see when opening a PDF determines > what quality the resulting image will be. You can almost think of it as > "printing to an image" as opposed to printing to a physical printer. > > Hope that makes sense. > > Chris
That explains it. I assume layers would fix the problem? The first laying being the "ripped" image, second layer text which I've added? Then, just alter the second layer? -Thufir _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
