[ptx] nona, gimp-2, TIFF_mask multilater tiff files

[JD Smith]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 06:01, Bruno Postle wrote:
> gimp-2 pre1 has just been released, and according to the release
> notes it has "Support for multipage TIFFs [Andrey Kiselev]".
> 
> I thought I would try it with the nona TIFF_mask output.
> 
> The file loads but with a couple of problems:
> 
> -  All file offsets are ignored, each layer is fitted to the top
>    left corner and the overall image is resized to the dimensions of
>    the first layer.  This is not so bad, it just means that the
>    image needs to be resized and the layers dragged to fit.
> 
> -  The masks are loaded as alpha-channels with no pixel information
>    remaining in the fully transparent areas, so there is no way to
>    blend the images by hand as there would be if the masks were
>    loaded as layer masks.

Can you not just say: Add Layer Mask... -> Layer's Alpha Channel and
recover a fully-functioning mask?  Probably a plug-in which does this
for all layers would be easy.

JD