hi Peter, here is what the big guys said ... good luck! carol
----- Forwarded message from Peter Kirchgessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Peter Kirchgessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] eps images that won't load Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 21:57:42 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 > >On 2002-04-05 at 1808.26 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed this mail: > >>How come GIMP fails to load these images? (Note they are zip-ed) >>http://www.liljeholmstorget.nu/press.html >> >>Gustav Persson >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Gimp-developer mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > -- Peter Kirchgessner http://www.kirchgessner.net mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user