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A new layer enforced for each text object?

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A new layer enforced for each text object? Avraham Makeler 19 Mar 16:23
  A new layer enforced for each text object? Daniel Hornung 19 Mar 21:07
Avraham Makeler
2009-03-19 16:23:19 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

A new layer enforced for each text object?

Hi all,
I read something in the documentation that says that each text (box?) is automatically placed in a new layer. And that's also what seems to happen in practice.

Doesn't sound so great to me. I like being able to have multiple objects in a single layer. So I can show/hide a whole lot of things at once. Also, if you have 50 objects in a pic, do you get 50 layers...???!!!

So...in general, does GIMP enforce a policy of one layer per object?

IF YES THEN Sounds crazy to me

ELSE /* I can have many objects in a single layer */ Great!
Now how can I disable this feature of creating text in its own new layer?

IF IMPOSSIBLE THEN
How at least can I move the text, after creation, to a different layer - i.e., a layer that contains a lot of other texts.

Great thanks in advance,

- avi

Daniel Hornung
2009-03-19 21:07:32 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

A new layer enforced for each text object?

On Thursday 19 March 2009, Avraham Makeler wrote:

Hi all,
I read something in the documentation that says that each text (box?) is automatically placed in a new layer. And that's also what seems to happen in practice.

Doesn't sound so great to me. I like being able to have multiple objects in a single layer. So I can show/hide a whole lot of things at once. Also, if you have 50 objects in a pic, do you get 50 layers...???!!!

Hi Avi,
each object that has its own boundaries and that can be moved, transformed, manipulated individually, _is_ indeed an individual layer. This can indeed be cumbersome if you have lots of layers, but the situation will probably improve once layer groups etc. are available at some point in the future.

If you feel you don't need to edit or move several layer individually any more, you can merge them into one single layer, either by merging down[1] or by merging all visible[2] layers. Note that text layers lose their special text layer property when merged with other (even text) layers.

Daniel

[1] http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-merge-down.html [2] http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-merge-layers.html