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Gimp: Erased sections of images print in some cases
From: Clark Mills <c.mills () auckland ac nz>
Date: 30 Oct 2002 11:08:45 +1300
Hi people. As part of documenting processes, I take screen captures and then chop stuff out that I don't want the world to see. I do this within the Gimp by setting an alpha channel on the screen capture and then _erasing_ the parts of the image that I want to obscure. An example is at: http://c-mills.ctru.auckland.ac.nz/transparent.png If you view this image from Linux in Galeon 1.2.6 or Netscape/7.0 all looks fine however if you print the image from within these applications then the _erased_ section prints as if it was never erased. This could be a great bit of fun and a way of making print pages appear with extra content that wasn't visible on the web page (pr0n, copyright). On windows the images obscure which is great but obviously the _erased_ information is still in the sent image. I let the Gimp people know this but they replied considering it a feature not a bug which could be the case in some/most circumstances, Bug #97167. Not an earth shattering bug but perhaps worthy of note. Cheers... Clark
Current thread:
- Gimp: Erased sections of images print in some cases Clark Mills (Oct 29)
- Re: Gimp: Erased sections of images print in some cases Robert Bihlmeyer (Oct 30)
- Re: Gimp: Erased sections of images print in some cases Earl Hood (Oct 31)