If you save images in anything but native GIMP format (xcf) only the
currently active layer will be saved. Therefore, to save an image in a
non-native format you need to merge all layers into one layer, make that
layer the active layer and then save the image.
Hope this helps,
Stefan
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Stefan Voelker My country is the world.
Dept of Mech & Industr Engr My countrymen are all mankind.
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign W.L. Garisson
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Scott Dorward wrote:
> I've been driving myself potty trying to solve a weird problem with
> the GIMP, but to no avail. I hope someone here can help. Anyone who
> can will earn my undying gratitude.
>
> Since installing the GIMP, I have found that any images I save as
> JPEGs are turned into garbage. Some images will get partly chopped
> around, others, involving graded colours, will be turned into big
> fuzzy messes. I have tried viewing said images in the GIMP, xv and
> netscape, and they look the same in all of them. Also I've found that
> if I try indexing a file to turn it into a GIF, it suffers similarly,
> regardless of how many colours I let the index use. XCF files save
> just fine.
>
> The only similar problem I came across in my searches on the web,
> in the archive of another list, was apparently cured by removing and
> reinstalling libjpeg-devel-6a-1.rpm. I have tried to repeat this, but
> when attempting to remove it (by rpm -e), was told that the package
> wasn't installed. When I tried to install it, I was told I couldn't
> because it was already installed. I ended up doing a --force on it,
> but rpm still believes the package is both installed and not
> installed. The same happened with libjpeg-6a-1.rpm. None of this has
> solved my original problem.
>
> I started with GIMP 0.99.19-1 and am now on 0.99.28. I am running
> redhat 5.0 on a K5 166 with 64MB RAM and a no-name S3 card. I also
> have GTK 1.0.0-1 loaded.
>
> I'm hoping this is something really simple that I've overlooked. I'm
> maybe one step about total newbie, but it's not a very big step.
> Please be gentle with me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Scott
>
>
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