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masterofamn

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Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 24

[Solved] Gimp 2.8: no EPS support?

Dear Arch users,

I am quite new to archlinux (came from Gentoo to arch a few weeks back) and my NB is running quite smoothly - until I wanted to open a EPS file in the new Gimp 2.8 today:

Gimp itself works, but is it possible that EPS support was dropped from the Arch binary? I did not find any info on this in the forums or by a quick google search.

Som details:
extra/gimp 2.8.0-1 [Installed]
    GNU Image Manipulation Program

extra/ghostscript 9.05-1 [Installed]
    An interpreter for the PostScript language

If anyone can give me ANY hints on either getting eps to work in 2.8 OR downgrade to whatever gimp I had before please let me know. I really need EPS support in Gimp...

Thanks in advance and best regards

MoA

Last edited by masterofamn (2012-05-09 20:34:58)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: [Solved] Gimp 2.8: no EPS support?

Welcome to the forum!

You may wanna use Inkscape for EPS, SVG and other vector graphics. But if you really need it to be GIMP, you can always downgrade it.

# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/gimp-2.6.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/gegl-0.1.8-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz

# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/gimp-2.6.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/gegl-0.1.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

This will revert you to the one released in early February this year. Which apparently supports "Encapsulated PostScript image (*.eps)".

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masterofamn

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Registered: 2012-05-09

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Re: [Solved] Gimp 2.8: no EPS support?

Thanks a lot for the reply and the detailed description for an arch n00b!
I  guess I'll downgrade then as I indeed have to use Gimp for some things. ButI'll have an eye on this:

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … imp-devel/

because it somehow indicates that EPS is comming back for 2.8 soon I guess:

     gimp-devel 2.8.0-1

    Dependencies (18)
[...]
    ghostscript (optional) - for postscript support
    gutenprint (optional) - for sophisticated printing only as gimp has built-in cups print support
    libwebkit (optional) - for the help browser or web-page plug-ins
    poppler-glib (optional) - for pdf support

And finally Edit says: I have updated to the devel version and here EPS import/export is working just fine.

Last edited by masterofamn (2012-05-09 20:35:46)