You can access it using sed/grep or some such tool. Opening the xcf file in a text editor, even after an autocrop, the text information remains in the following format:
(text "test text") (font "Sans") (font-size 18.000000) (font-size-unit pixels) (hinting yes) (antialias yes) (language "en-us") (base-direction ltr) (color (color-rgb 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000)) (justify left) (box-mode dynamic) (box-unit pixels) I posted a grep example here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/25145#comment-11229 -Rob A> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Volker Lenhardt <volker.lenha...@uni-due.de> wrote: > Am 08.08.2011 21:00, schrieb Ofnuts: >> On 08/08/2011 12:57 PM, Volker Lenhardt wrote: >>> Gimp 2.6.8 on Linux openSUSE 11.3 >>> >>> I need to extract text and font from a text layer. No problem, I >>> thought, with gimp-text-layer-get-text and gimp-text-layer-get-font. >>> >>> But I find that the original text layer was cropped with >>> plug-in-autocrop-layer. Nevertheless Gimp lets me edit the text with the >>> text edit tool - after a confirmation dialog. >>> >>> But I can't get the text with script-fu. Is there a way to manage it? >>> There are many files involved. >> >> The layer name is "usually" the text contents, so instead of getting the >> text you can retrieve the name. Your Mileage May Vary. > > It does vary, I'm sorry for it. Thank you all the same. > > Volker > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
