Re: [Gimp-user] OSX ps "unknown file" w/ ghostscript installed

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri gmail com>]

* JEM <forums gimpusers com> [01-25-17 16:31]:
> I'm sure there's a stupidly simple answer to this but I can't figure it out. I'm
> using GIMP 2.8.18 on OS 10.12.2 and despite having ghostscript 9.20 I still
> cannot access ps files. I have no file-ps-load in the procedure browser.

works for me:

gimp-2.8.18-2.22.x86_64
ghostscript-9.20-2.1.x86_64
openSUSE Tumbleweed
 
> I installed ghostscript via homebrew and linked paths. I've restarted GIMP
> multiple times, have uninstalled/reinstalled GIMP and ghostscript.
>
> When I try to open a vector, I get an 'opening failed: Unknown file type'
> message.
>
> My Plug-In folder points to usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.20/lib and also
> GIMP.app/contents/resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins. The GIMP plugins folder has
> all the built in ones plus some that aren't executable from other plugins I
> downloaded (separate+).

I have: file-pdf-load
        file-pdf-load-thumb
        file-pdf-save
        file-pdf-save-multi
 
> Any ideas? This issue is similar to Bug 689657 from 2012, which was never
> resolved.

that is for OSX, not OS.

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