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Open PostScript files with MacGIMP 2.0.5 Apps
MacGIMP need ghostscript to open PostScript files. With MacGimp2.0.5 (.app version), Gimp is not able to find ghostscript (gs command). When you try to open a PostScript file, Gimp tells you:
Error starting ghostscript (Failed to execute child process "gs" (No such file or directory))
To solve the problem:
  1. Install ghostscript (I'm using espgs-7.05.6.ppc.dmg).

  2. Modify the file Gimp.app -> Contents -> Resources -> lib -> gimp -> 2.0 -> environ -> default.env to add the following text in a new line:
    GS_PROG=/usr/local/bin/gs
    
    Another solution is to put in the same file the line:
    PATH=/usr/local/bin
    
[robg adds: I don't have MacGIMP, so this one's untested.]
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Open PostScript files with MacGIMP 2.0.5
Authored by: mfac on May 05, '04 01:04:37PM
seems to work for me with gimp.app.

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gs via Fink?
Authored by: zacht on May 05, '04 01:31:59PM
For those who have installed ghostscript via Fink, does the same hint work replacing
/usr/bin/local
with
/sw/bin
?

zach

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Open PostScript files with MacGIMP 2.0.5
Authored by: gvitale on May 06, '04 06:26:54AM

It works but I must say that Preview.app does a better job in opening and converting Postscript files...



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