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New to gimp, having trouble importing images
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(11-26-2023, 10:32 AM)rich2005 Wrote:
Quote:I confirm that you can drag and drop directly from Finder(*) to the layer's stack (layer's dialog) ...snip...
(*) AKA Caja for the MATE DE on Linux, Window Explorer? for the M$ Windows system

Wink Did you actually do this in a MacOS ? I am sure it does work.

If you look at the video that was referenced, 22 minutes but you only need the first couple of minutes.

A video file is opened in VLC
A frame is captured using VLC snapshot - a typical graphic file vlcsnap-long-time-stamp.jpg - nothing special there.
The graphics file is dragged from the filemanager ( Finder) into the canvas (not the layers).

Why people make videos with a black theme and almost impossible to follow I do not know (that is a rhetorical question).



..That dropped in graphic is the vlcsnap file not birmingham...something ?  Gimp uses a magick number to identify a file type, so that birmingham file must be recognised. I have tried all-ways to break a file so that icon appears without luck.

My guess is a broken file or possibly a MacOS security "feature" - I do not know.

Hi Rich, please give me 24h, at work I have a minimac with Catalina (I'm not working today Big Grin ), I'll try it on the minimac removing the "all files/all drive" access to GIMP which were the default setting when installing GIMP.
Patrice
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RE: New to gimp, having trouble importing images - by PixLab - 11-28-2023, 01:04 AM

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