Hello Ryan, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ryan Krauss <ryanli...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a Python Gimp question. I don't know if it belongs on the user or > developer list, but my feeling is that the people with the knowledge are > more likely to read this list. Let me know if this is the wrong list to > post to. > > I have written a script to create PNG and XCF versions of an image I want to > save. I have a certain layer whose visibility I want to turn off before I > save the PNG but I also want the XCF to give me more editting power if I > want to alter the image later. I have this working fairly well, but the > problem is that when my script finishes, I am looking at the flattened PNG > version of the image. At that point, I would need to close the PNG and > re-open the XCF if I want to edit the file. This is less than ideal. I > think it could be solved by simply doing one undo step after saving the PNG > (since flattening was the last thing I did), but I don't see in the > procedural database a way to undo from a script. Is there a way to save a > flattened PNG and then save an unflattened XCF of the same image and leave > the XCF open?
Duplicate the image and do your flattening on the copy. It's more efficient than you might think -- the main time involved in duplicating a moderate sized image seems to be actually in setting up its GUI window rather _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
