Re: [Gimp-user] Questions regarding text and cloning

2015-12-02 Thread Steve Kinney
On 12/02/2015 06:43 PM, Jeffery Small wrote: > One other thought I had was to duplicate the layer and then convert that > layer from text to graphics, however I don't see any way to accomplish > this. I think that's the best solution. In the Layers dock, right click the text layer and select

Re: [Gimp-user] ai files in gimp

2015-12-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 15:21 -0500, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a way of importing ai files into gimp? I've used inkscape on the commandline (in Linux) to convert ai files to png in the past, and it's worked fairly well as long as I have the right fonts installed. How were you

[Gimp-user] Questions regarding text and cloning

2015-12-02 Thread Jeffery Small
I have a gimp layer with some text. What I want to do is select the text and then clone a pattern from elsewhere on the drawing (from another layer) onto the text outline. So far no luck. I make the text layer active. I can select the text using the Select by Color tool and I can do a Bucket

Re: [Gimp-user] Questions regarding text and cloning

2015-12-02 Thread Steve Kinney
On 12/02/2015 08:03 PM, Jeffery Small wrote: > Steve: > > Thanks for the tips regarding Discard Text Information and the Alpha > Channel Lock. I have tried this and it still is not working. When I > first did this and tried to clone from another layer, I realize that the > converted text layer