Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-30 Thread Ernie Wright
Roel Schroeven wrote: I can easily convert the bitmap to 24 bits, and then the image looks good in GIMP, which is to be expected since it doesn't contain any alpha information anymore. And it has the added benefit that the image files are smaller. Either way it's no big deal to me. I only

[Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
Hi, I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial transparency. The image doesn't contain any transparency though (I don't even think BMP supports

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread peter kostov
Roel Schroeven wrote: Hi, I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial transparency. The image doesn't contain any transparency though (I

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:56 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial transparency. The image doesn't

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Martin Nordholts
Roel Schroeven wrote: Hi, I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial transparency. The image doesn't contain any transparency though (I

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread peter kostov
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:56 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:36 +0200, peter kostov wrote: Sven is right. I just did: Add Layer Mask - Transfer layer's alpha channel, check Invert Mask, then file - open as layers - open the original image, flatten and the image is O.K. So it is not a bug in GIMP, but maybe in the way

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
Sven Neumann schreef: Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:56 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: I have some BMP-files that GIMP doesn't load correctly; GIMP shows almost the whole image as transparent instead of the real image data. Only a small region is visible, and even that with partial

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread peter kostov
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:36 +0200, peter kostov wrote: Sven is right. I just did: Add Layer Mask - Transfer layer's alpha channel, check Invert Mask, then file - open as layers - open the original image, flatten and the image is O.K. So it is not a bug in GIMP,

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
peter kostov schreef: Add Layer Mask - Transfer layer's alpha channel, check Invert Mask, then file - open as layers - open the original image, flatten and the image is O.K. That doesn't seem to work for me. I get an image that is almost completely white. No big deal though: I just use

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
peter kostov schreef: Roel, I don't understand your technique of creating this screenshot, but it looks like the BMP file has a mask in it. This is the source of the transparency, because the file-bmp plug-in transforms this into transparency. Yes, I understand that now. Unfortunately I