hey guys, 
I know that it is possible to create templates for GIMP projects. I make sure that when I create it the fill with section says "fill with transparency". however when i use the template the canvas is filled with white. Is it possible to fix this problem? Thanks!

Ok so if you look at the attachement you will note that I have a Window that has a "Layers, Channels, and Paths" Dialog which is combined with a "Brushes, Patterns, Gradients dialog--that's how my Gimp originally had it set up and I've just continued to keep that because I am used to it.  Anyway, when I install Gimp on a new computer for whatever reason it has the same combo but "reversed" so that the "Bushes, Patterns, and Gradients" is on the top and the "Layers, Channels, and Paths" is on the bottom.  I just copy my preferences from the old set up to get it to have the same preferences. 

But I am trying to install the program for my wife on her MAC and so of course I can't just copy over Windows preferences (or maybe I can not sure).  I have no idea how to recreate that set up using GIMP menus.  I can add and delete tabs but I can't figure out how to recreate how I have it on my Windows computer (i.e.. as it is in the attachment).  In fact, I can't figure out how to do it on Windows either which is why I always just copy over preferences when I install Gimp on another Windows computer. Seems like it should be pretty easy.

Any help would be appreciated.

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How do I test to find if an image has a selection?
What I wish to do is: If image has selection, then do something.

I'm afraid that I find the descriptions in the Python console as clear as mud! Perhaps they are OK for someone who alreay knows the answer.

david.

ofn-remove-grid removes table borders from scanned text. It is found here.

It was spawned from this discussion.

As always, comments, suggestions and bug reports welcome.

Enjoy.

In short, I scan a PDF document and then try to edit it as text.

My problem is that I can only do this using Microsoft Word, not with Libre Office Writer or OpenOffice Writer.

With LibreOffice the file opens but does not allow me to edit it.

With OpenOffice version 4.1.7 (currently the most current), editing is allowed, but the text appears encoded. I've tried several Character Set options, but a page with ascii codes always appears.

I didn't want to depend on having to use Word.

Does anyone know how to use either LibreOffice or OpenOffice to obtain the scanned PDF result in an editable text file?

I thank you for your help.

Hello,
I use GIMP 2.8.22 on Linux Mint 19. I discovered new software for OCR from a scanned pdf file: Scan2pdf and Tesseract. I would like to use OCR but the scanned pdf file is a table with borders, and some data are missing. It seems to me that we can remove / erase automatically with appropriate tools the borders (threesolds, contrast, light...) with Gimp. Please could you help doing this?
Cheers
Seb

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Hi

I checked google and forum, couldn't find thread about this

To the point - i'm looking for way do downgrade quality od image in Gimp. I always did this while exporting file, but now in newest version i can't find window responsible for this.

this is maddening. i can't get any help elsewhere so hopefully someone here can get me out of this hell.

did a fresh install and still doesn't work. see video. i've tried Google but either my Google-fu is failing me or there's some idiotic thing i'm overlooking that no one else has because zero people seem to have this problem.

all i'm trying to do is get three dialogs on the right (layers on top, colors in the middle, tool options on the bottom) and a single column of the tools on the left. but no matter where i try to drop any dialog, at any time, it fails. again, see video.

i'm going out of my mind. any help is appreciated.

edit: word

Afternoon,

Newbie here, what do the clamp input/ output tick boxes do in levels? I cannot see a difference on a 16 bit raw to tiff image that I play around with from time to time, ticking and unticking the input checkbox and looking at the preview histogram.

https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-tool-levels.html has no information and 

clamp input has the mouseover text "Clamp input values before applying output mapping" and Clamp output has "Clamp final output  values", both message seem to suggest that I am missing some critical piece of knowledge. I am aware the histogram is a representation on the tones or colours in an image and that levels alter the relative values on a mathematical way to alter the proportion of said tones to the human eye (as the computer does not care if big chunks and posterised splits appear in the histogram), but what is being clamped to what?

Philip.

I want to use images like this, the black and white images, as alphas for ZBrush. I can't find out how to make them. Can you make them in GIMP? https://www.textures.com/download/3dbrush0089/127532