Hello!

On Monday 15 June 2009, powah wrote:

I want to modify text on a jpg file ...
I had read that I should select the text layer. What does it mean?

That means that there is no text layer. jpg files don't know about text, just about pixels. If you saved the image yourself as jpg, you should have received a small warning box saying you'll lose all layer information in that format. If someone else gave you the jpg, complain to them :)

If you want to keep all (or nearly all) information about your layers, modes, masks, selection and text, you should save the image as "xcf", that's GIMP's own format.

I hope this isn't too bad news for you... Daniel

powah (wong_powah@yahoo.ca) wrote:

The jpg file is exported from a visio file embedded in a ms word document. Instead of using the jpg file format, what else should I use to keep the text information?

Unfortunately I don't see a way for you to keep the text information here. You probably have to just use visio to edit the text until it shows the text you want, and then import it into the GIMP and apply whatever graphical effects you wanted to add.

Keep in mind that GIMP is a pixel based program and not a diagram editor.

What about gif file?

Won't help. Basically our own XCF format is the only format that can store GIMPs text layer information in an editable manner and there are no other programs writing such files, especially not from microsoft... :-)

Bye,
Simon

On Monday 15 June 2009, powah wrote:

The jpg file is exported from a visio file embedded in a ms word document. Instead of using the jpg file format, what else should I use to keep the text information?

You could try to export to either svg (better) or pdf (not quite as good) and open the result in Inkscape (another free program). I sometimes have good results with that. If you need to open it in GIMP, there's not much you can do, I'm afraid.

Daniel