Hi Carol,
EPS-files require an additional showpage command submitted to ghostscript. This is usually done by the ps-plugin. But these binary PostScript files (I have never seen before) are not recognized as EPS-files. The plug-in is not looking at the extension.
If you or Gustav are working with Linux, you can use a workaround. Create a file /tmp/gs_eps with the following content:
#!/bin/sh args=`echo $* | sed -e 's/eps -c quit/eps -c showpage -c quit/'` exec gs $args
(Note the different ` and ´). Make it executable:
chmod 755 /tmp/gs_eps
Set an environment variable in the bash:
export GS_PROG=/tmp/gs_eps
and start gimp from that shell:
gimp TORG_illustration.eps
For Windows I don't know an appropriate workaround.
Sincerely
Peter
Carol Spears wrote:
here is a question from the user list. since i have used gimp to work with eps files before, i got one of the images and tried to open it. my gimp-1.2 failed also. any ideas?
the image i downloaded and unzipped is located here http://carol.gimp.org/files/TORG_illustration.eps
thanks, carol
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