Thank you for responding. I have a few questions about your response:
--- On Mon, 8/25/08, Michael J. Hammel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Michael J. Hammel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Importing and saving milti-page TIFF files > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 4:54 PM > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 08:53 -0700, John Christopher wrote: > > I have about 1,000 multi-page TIFF files I must edit. > > I only want to edit the first page of each file (I > must > > delete some text from the first page of each document) > > and then save it. > > I might be wrong about this but I believe GIMP will read > multi-page > TIFFs but cannot write multi-page TIFFs. > > > What is the best way to solve this problem? > > When you open the TIFF, select open to layers. The first > page will be > the bottom layer. Turn off visibility of all the other > layers and make > sure the bottom layer is active in the Layers dialog. How do I do these 2 things? What is the step-by-step process for doing these things? I am a Gimp newbie. > Then > you can edit > that page. > > When you save, save it as a multi-layered PNG. Then use ImageMagick's > "convert" tool to convert it to a multi-layered > TIFF: Is there a difference between multi-layered and multi-page TIFF? > convert file.png file.tiff > > That should do it (I think), though I can't vouch for > the quality of the > conversion. > -- > Michael J. Hammel > Principal Software Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://graphics-muse.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are > running late. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
