12-04-2016, 07:47 PM
How to re-edit a text layer after saving xcf file and re-loading it?
This is a multi-layer xcf file with layers of text, and various layers of graphics.
Normally, selecting the text layer and text tool, allows the user to click on the text. The text box becomes active and adjustable, and text can be edited.
However, I have just re-loaded an xcf file - saved as - and found the text layers to be uneditable.
The text border is dotted.
Any attempt to click on it simply starts a new text layer.
It is as if the layer is locked. If so, how do I unlock it?
Note: the chain lock is not active.
I re-loaded the original xcf file.... it is the same.
It worked perfectly before saving and closing the file.
Is this a known bug?
It has happened to me before.
Also, after googling this problem, others have also experienced it, but I could find no satisfactory solution.
I have other xcf files that can be saved and the text re-edited.
Can anybody help?
GIMP 2.8.14
This is a multi-layer xcf file with layers of text, and various layers of graphics.
Normally, selecting the text layer and text tool, allows the user to click on the text. The text box becomes active and adjustable, and text can be edited.
However, I have just re-loaded an xcf file - saved as - and found the text layers to be uneditable.
The text border is dotted.
Any attempt to click on it simply starts a new text layer.
It is as if the layer is locked. If so, how do I unlock it?
Note: the chain lock is not active.
I re-loaded the original xcf file.... it is the same.
It worked perfectly before saving and closing the file.
Is this a known bug?
It has happened to me before.
Also, after googling this problem, others have also experienced it, but I could find no satisfactory solution.
I have other xcf files that can be saved and the text re-edited.
Can anybody help?
GIMP 2.8.14