Re: PDF files not recogniseable in GIMP under Apple X11
Re: PDF files not recogniseable in GIMP under Apple X11
- Subject: Re: PDF files not recogniseable in GIMP under Apple X11
- From: Aidan Kehoe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:47:56 +0100
Ar an 6z la de mm 6, scrmobh Joseph Kunkel :
> While I can directly load PDF files into GIMP running under OrobooOSX
> X11, when I try it with Apple X11 the translation is not done. Is
> there some interpreter library that needs to be linked into Apple X11.
> Given that screen dumps are now done as PDF files it seems logical that
> Apple X11 Gimp should be able to read them!!!
Gimp calls Ghostscript to render PDFs to bitmaps; if you don't have
Ghostscript installed, it fails. The whole architecture is ugly, and would,
in the best of all possible worlds, be replaced by something more OSX-native
on the Mac.
--
Parhasard; rex quondam Pokimonorum, rex futuram Pokimonorum.
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