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: "Stephen A. Langer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:34:12 -0400
I had a possibly related problem recently, which turned out to be
caused by having two versions of ghostscript installed. One (the
right one) was in /sw/bin, installed by fink. The other was in
/usr/local/bin, and had been installed by OpenOffice.org.
/usr/local/bin was before /sw/bin in my path, so I wasn't running the
right ghostscript.
-- Steve
At 8:32 AM -0400 6/6/03, Joseph Kunkel wrote:
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.
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 07:47 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
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.
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Biology Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst MA 01003
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/
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