[Gimp-user] Fwd: GIMP 2.8.22 for Mac and GhostScript Integration

[Carol Spears <carol spears gmail com>]

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From: Carol Spears <carol spears gmail com>
Date: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8.22 for Mac and GhostScript Integration
To: Andrew Roper <nomticus hotmail com>




On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Andrew Roper <nomticus hotmail com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for current methods to enable PS/EPS support in GIMP 2.8.22
> for Mac using GhostScript 9.21. I've searched to no avail for solutions.
> Anything I find refers to older versions and modifying environment
> variables but the newest version of GIMP has taken these approaches away.
> GhostScript does its own install and places itself in '/usr/local/bin' and
> referencing that in any of the Folders options under Preferences does not
> enable support. I've even pushed that variable path to the top of the list
> and there's still no ability to open EPS files.
>
> Is anyone opening EPS files in GIMP 2.8.22 for Mac? If so, how are you
> doing it?
>
> BTW, I've already checked Procedure Browser and 'file-ps-load' and
> 'file-ps-save' are not listed. 'Info.plist' does actually have an entry for
> (E)PS files so it would seem the app should support it. Basically, how does
> one get a new procedure into GIMP?
>
> This was discussed this last May.  Within the thread the person named
Partha is (I think) the person building GIMP for Mac.  I have been building
GIMP for myself on Linux which is similar.  Perhaps you can glean some
information from this thread or "Partha" will show up and explain
everything....

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2017-May/msg00007.html

Carol