GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144437
RFE: template files should allow guidelines
Last modified: 2006-07-15 16:31:03 UTC
When saving an image as a Template, any existing guidelines should be saved to the template file. When loading a Template, or creating an image from a Template, the saved guidelines should be recreated. Here's a nice real-world example. Many companies offer image-to-business-card services, with "full bleed" printing. They tell you to provide an image that exceeds the final product area by a given amount. A Template for business cards could offer the full image area, with guidelines for the final image area after the printer crops to the appropriate size.
The proper way to implement this is probably to save an empty XCF file into the ~/.gimp-2.0/templates directory and refer to it from the templaterc. As you can see this is already foreseen and almost completely implemented. We just never finished this hack.
Duplicate of bug #168541?
Yes, let's close this as a duplicate because fixing bug #168541 would also fulfill this request. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168541 ***