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: Adrian Umpleby <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 14:19:50 +0100
The scenario is identical in both Oroboros and Apple Gimp up until
actual translation. I can chose the PDF file to open and it appears
in the gimp preview icon and is identified as a ps file with the
correct dimensions. I do have Ghostscript installed and the plugin
tree says that there is ps read available.
I was wondering if there was some script within Apple X11 that might
be at fault or if Apple X11 is using some different libraries that
might be at fault. As far as I can tell the Gimp used by the two are
identical. Gimp pdfs in Oroboro X11 work but when I close Oroboro X11
and open Apple X11 Gimp can no longer load PDFs.
How exactly are you opening gimp, or the pdf, under OroborOSX? Are you
working through OroborOSX (i.e. by dragging the pdf to the Dock icon so
OroborOSX routes it to gimp, or by launching gimp via OroborOSX)? Or is
it from the command line? If the latter, is it in an xterm or Apple's
Terminal.app?
How does this method compare with what you're doing under Apple's X11?
Is this also from an xterm? If so, is your PATH set up the same under
each scenario? (OroborOSX/XDarwin does fiddle a little with PATH, so it
could be slightly different - in particular, check you have
/usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH under Apple's X11.)
Generally speaking, it's well worth comparing all your environment
variables under situations that you expect to be 'identical' (i.e. in
an xterm opened by each environment). Just type "printenv", and paste
the list into a file - a different file for each environment, then
compare the two using diff (or Apple's nice FileMerge app, if you have
the Dev.Tools).
Final question: are you switching X11 directories (i.e. /usr/X11R6) for
each environment? Or have you set it up so you can launch both
OroborOSX and Apple's X11 together (on different DISPLAY numbers) -
i.e. so you are using exactly the same /usr/X11R6 in both cases? If the
former, then I guess it's possible there may be an issue with the
location of your ghostscript installation - or if it has something
installed in /usr/X11R6 under XDarwin's /usr/X11R6 that it needs, but
which you don't have installed under your Apple /usr/X11R6 directory...?
Hope that provides you with a few places to start looking!
Adrian
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