Hey...

Because it is a .eps file and GIMP don't have support for that what it seems like.

Don't even know what a .eps file is really but it seems to not be supported by GIMP.

//Niklas

On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:08, gurra16@spray.se wrote:

How come GIMP fails to load these images? (Note they are zip-ed) http://www.liljeholmstorget.nu/press.html

Gustav Persson

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On Friday 05 April 2002 18:15, Niklas wrote:

Hey...

Because it is a .eps file and GIMP don't have support for that what it seems like.

Don't even know what a .eps file is really but it seems to not be supported by GIMP.

//Niklas

EPS means Encapsulated PostScript'' and you should be able to load it into Gimp. Gimp produces such files when needed.

John Culleton

On Friday 05 April 2002 06:15 pm, Niklas, was heard saying:

Hey...

Because it is a .eps file and GIMP don't have support for that what it seems like.

Don't even know what a .eps file is really but it seems to not be supported by GIMP.

//Niklas

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Gimp may not load postscript graphics files, I know I have not tried them yet. The file type .eps is encapsulated postscript and not many graphics programs do load them. Usually require some structured art program rather than bitmap type.

Patrick

hi Peter,
here is what the big guys said ...

good luck! carol

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From: Peter Kirchgessner To: Carol Spears
CC: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu, gurra16@spray.se 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, gurra16@spray.se typed this mail:

How come GIMP fails to load these images? (Note they are zip-ed) http://www.liljeholmstorget.nu/press.html

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hmm, pretty quick huh?

this guy also wrote alot of my favorite plug-ins. poking around his web site, i was wondering how many collections of photos there were out there that people had made with photo mosaic in mind.

once i tried to make a fake batch of photo mosaic ready photos by making about one hundred or so into darkened and lightend grey scale images. unfortunately, those are long gone.

sorry to ramble ... carol

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From: Peter Kirchgessner To: Carol Spears
CC: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] eps images that won't load Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 18:07:15 +0200

Hi,

the corrected plug-in is available in source and executable for Linux/i386 at http://www.kirchgessner.net

Sincerely

Peter

Carol Spears wrote:

On 2002-04-06 at 2157.42 +0200, Peter Kirchgessner typed this mail:

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.