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 _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
