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Strange Blue Scribble Showing on some XCF Files Opened in Gimp

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mmartin1
2013-09-16 20:39:13 UTC (over 11 years ago)
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Strange Blue Scribble Showing on some XCF Files Opened in Gimp

Hello All,

OS: Windows XP
Gimp v 2.8

Not sure when this started happening since the last time I used Gimp was about a week or so ago and everything was fine at that point... Now when I open these ".xcf" files I've been working on in Gimp I see this strange Blue Scribble that is showing in the same location for pretty much all the xcf files I opened.

I went through every layer in the "Layers" window and made each one NOT visible in an attempt to see if it was something on one of the layers, but it remained there even after ALL layers were no Longer visible. I also created a new xcf file, saved it, then re-opened it in Gimp and NO scribble was there...

If I export one of the files showing the Blue Scribble into any other format and then re-opened it in Gimp the Blue Scribble is gone too.

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

Thanks in Advance, MMartin

Ofnuts
2013-09-16 22:17:17 UTC (over 11 years ago)

Strange Blue Scribble Showing on some XCF Files Opened in Gimp

On 09/16/2013 10:39 PM, mmartin1 wrote:

Hello All,

OS: Windows XP
Gimp v 2.8

Not sure when this started happening since the last time I used Gimp was about a week or so ago and everything was fine at that point... Now when I open these ".xcf" files I've been working on in Gimp I see this strange Blue Scribble that is showing in the same location for pretty much all the xcf files I opened.

I went through every layer in the "Layers" window and made each one NOT visible in an attempt to see if it was something on one of the layers, but it remained there even after ALL layers were no Longer visible. I also created a new xcf file, saved it, then re-opened it in Gimp and NO scribble was there...

If I export one of the files showing the Blue Scribble into any other format and then re-opened it in Gimp the Blue Scribble is gone too.

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

Looks like a path... Do you have anything in your Paths list dialog?

mmartin1
2013-09-17 14:54:38 UTC (over 11 years ago)
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Strange Blue Scribble Showing on some XCF Files Opened in Gimp

Looks like a path... Do you have anything in your Paths list dialog?

Hey Ofnuts, thanks for the reply!

Your exactly right... I feel dumb, should have seen that! Awesome, removed those "Paths" and now its gone... Yahh!

Thanks again for the reply, much appreciated!

Thanks Again, Matt

Michael Schumacher
2013-09-17 17:08:20 UTC (over 11 years ago)

Strange Blue Scribble Showing on some XCF Files Opened in Gimp

mmartin1 wrote:

Your exactly right... I feel dumb, should have seen that! Awesome, removed those "Paths" and now its gone... Yahh!

Any idea how you got them into the images by accident, especially if it is the same scribble in multiple files?

Regards, 
Michael
mmartin1
2013-09-17 17:14:26 UTC (over 11 years ago)
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Strange Blue Scribble Showing on some XCF Files Opened in Gimp

mmartin1 wrote:
Any idea how you got them into the images by accident, especially if it is the same scribble in multiple files?

What I'm guessing happened was I accidentally somehow created and saved the path (*maybe by hitting some keyboard shortcut or something like that), and then I created multiple copies of the same file to try different editing type stuff and I assume it was inherited when I copied them...

Thanks, Matt