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February 11, 2008 - 03:59 — CCRRAR

When I try to open a .eps file I get the following messages

Error starting Ghostscript. Make sure that Ghostscript is installed and - if necessary - use the environment variable GS_PROG to tell GIMP about its location.
(Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory))

Could not interpret 'C:\Users\RAR\Documents\Nobska Ventures\Marketing\Logo's and Graphics\Originals\Logos\Nobska Ventures Logo - Vector Graphic.eps'

Opening 'C:\Users\RAR\Documents\Nobska Ventures\Marketing\Logo's and Graphics\Originals\Logos\Nobska Ventures Logo - Vector Graphic.eps' failed:

I am new to GIMP but did try to find Ghostscript but could not figure out where it is.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob

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January 1, 2011 - 10:47 — cylax arnold

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November 1, 2010 - 19:01 — rickzee

Gimp|Ghostscript|.eps files

Windows 7( 32 bit)
ghostscript.com>gs900w32.exe
Gimp 2.6.11

I personally could not get to the install window for ghostscript until i had defined the environment variables as GS_PROG and gswin32.exe.

control panel>system and security>system>advanced system settings>environment variables>new

After setting the environment variables as defined above i could install ghostscript

Once installed i went this route to find the new path variable

Computer>local disk>program files>gs>gs 9.00>uninstal and copied the path...C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.00\bin\gswin32.exe

I then went back to environment variables and replaced gswin32.exe with C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.00\bin\gswin32.exe

Restarted Gimp and can know successfully download .eps files

For some reason i wanted to figure out how to do this first...now i've got to start trying to figure Gimp out...

May 12, 2011 - 02:41 — paul_saute

Gimp|Ghostscript|.eps files and I use Win7 64, but the

This post worked for me too with vista x64...

I had to read post "Gimp|Ghostscript|.eps files" twice AND post "I use Win7 64, but the" is part 2 of the solution...

November 24, 2010 - 17:37 — dsfoo

THANKS

rickzee, THIS WORKED PERFECTLY!!! I've (barely)taught myself how to use GMP, but am SO glad to be able to edit eps files! I've never tried to get something like this to work before, so it was baby steps, and then it worked. Thanks!

THANKS!!

November 6, 2010 - 03:11 — schumaml

This would be very strange -

This would be very strange - GS_PROG is a custom variable used by GIMP's file-ps-load plug-in to look up the Ghostscript binary (usually gswin32c.exe prefixed by the path; unless %PATH% has been modified).

Can anyone else confirm the claim that Ghostscript can't be installed on Windows 7 unless this variable is set?

May 12, 2011 - 02:30 — paul_saute

Can anyone else confirm the claim that Ghostscript...

Hi,

My Ghostscript was already installed Vista x64 and I set the variable AFTER...

September 27, 2010 - 19:44 — kidvaletudo

ghostscript and gimp

I was having problems as well, but it seems to work now.

I have gimp 2.0 and windows vista 32-bit. I set the environment variable to the gswin32c.exe (not 32.exe) and it didn't work at first, until I closed and restarted GIMP.

Did any of you forget to restart GIMP? Cuase that frustrated me, but its simple.

January 5, 2009 - 09:30 — Anonymous

I'm currently using Windows

I'm currently using Windows XP 64-bit with GIMP 2.6.3 64-bit and Ghostscript 8.63 64-bit. I tried setting a system variable a few different times in case I had done something wrong, and no luck. As a last resort, I copied gswin32c.exe (yes, the name still contains '32' in the 64-bit package) and it's libraries directly into the GIMP's bin directory, and it worked. I know this isn't the recommended solution, but the solutions provided so far did not work for me. I got the idea from http://registry.gimp.org/node/1616.
July 1, 2009 - 20:48 — Anonymous

please help?

Hello, I am new to all of this and don't understand how to copy gswin32.exe and its libraries into GIMP's bin directory, nor do I understand what a bin directory is, but would really love to open an eps file with GIMP. Wish I knew more in general.
July 2, 2009 - 00:26 — PhotoComiX

please help?

In this case the "Gimp bin directory" correspond to the bin folder ,inside gimp , usually in C:/Program Files/gimp About copy well you select the thing and you click CTRL C to copy and when copied you click in the folder where paste and then you do Ctrl V You do not need to copy libraries... Gimp can't do much with EPS, in some cases not even display them correctly ...you may want use Inkscape for EPS, SVG and other vectorial files
June 15, 2009 - 09:57 — Anonymous

It worked

It worked for me too. Thanks
May 27, 2009 - 11:52 — Anonymous

Star man

worked for me too :D
May 26, 2009 - 10:15 — Anonymous

Works for me

Great Solution, thanks for sharing :)
May 26, 2009 - 14:43 — schumaml

It would be interesting to

It would be interesting to know if you had tried to set the GS_PROG variable before.

It would really be strange if this did work for some and not for others - this isn't an esoteric setting somewhere in the registry, and can even be tested on the command line.

May 10, 2010 - 04:40 — praecorloth

GS_PROG variable.

Late to the game, but I found the solution of copying the Ghostscript exe and lib files here and it worked for me. I did try the GS_PROG variable previously and that did not work for me (XP Pro 32bit). What's also interesting is that I left the GS_PROG variable in place when I initially copied over the Ghostscript files to the GIMP bin directory and the solution did not work. I had to remove the GS_PROG variable to get it to work.

May 10, 2010 - 08:07 — schumaml

What was the value you had

What was the value you had GS_PROG set to, and where was the gswin32c.exe file located?

May 10, 2010 - 16:02 — lylejk

I use Win7 64, but the

I use Win7 64, but the environmental variable setting (sort of convoluted to get to in Win7, but not impossible) for both are the same. Mine looks like that below (the line in between Program and files is my cursor; sorry about that; lol). :)

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May 10, 2010 - 18:44 — schumaml

And I expect that this works

And I expect that this works for you?

May 11, 2010 - 07:05 — lylejk

Yup; after you install

Yup; after you install Ghostscript, copy the path with execuble and create the Environmental Variable (as shown; sorry for the cutoff, but it's gswin32.exe) and voila. Might have to reboot (don't remember now).

May 11, 2010 - 07:49 — schumaml

I wouldn't have expected

I wouldn't have expected otherwise. This seems to confirm that any claims of "GS_PROG does not work" is due to people setting it to a wrong value.

January 11, 2009 - 04:31 — PhotoComiX

I'm currently using Windows

well may be not the recommended solution, but is simple to explain and it works. Change a path so it will lead to X ,or move a copy of X so it will be on the path are 2 ways to get the same result , (only,in this case, very theoretic disadvantage the few Kb more of diskspace used for copy X ) But then i can't imagine how change configuration path may have not worked for you, it should. Instead i may imagine well, because happened to me ,,that A window user may have mental blocks preventing him to fiddle with something called as "configuration path" even if the operation in practice is very simple. Anyway in both ways will work
January 5, 2009 - 11:06 — schumaml

If you tell us which

If you tell us which variable you tried to set to what value, someone might be able to point out possible errors.

Setting environment variables has always worked for me, and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work for others as well.

October 14, 2008 - 16:36 — Odo

Problem opening .eps files - Windows Vistas Ultimate 64

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Gimp 2.6.0 + Ghostscript 8.63 (gs863w64.exe) Environment variable - System variable: Name: GS_PROG Value: C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gswin32.exe It works very well. Keep up the good work, Odo.
February 12, 2008 - 18:21 — BruceH

Any news?

I have the same problem. I installed GhostScript, but no joy. I don't know how to tell the GIMP how to find it in windows.
February 12, 2008 - 18:35 — BruceH

OK, figured that out.

Silly me, should have done more research before posting. To get ghostscript to work with the GIMP in Windows XP, you need to create the environment variable GS_PROG. Right click on My Computer. Select Properties. Click on the Advanced Tab, then on the button labeled Environment Variables. Then click New. In the field Variable Name, enter GS_PROG. In the field Variable Value, enter the path to GS. On my system it is "C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.54\bin\gswin32.exe" Restart the GIMP.
September 10, 2009 - 23:50 — Anonymous

This worked GREAT!

This worked GREAT - thank you for your help!
May 16, 2009 - 18:40 — Anonymous

Advanced Tab/button labled "Environment Labels" does not exist

Attempting to run Gimp (32bit XP) v226 with GhostScript v864 with the goal of opening and editing previously produced EPS, PDF, and Ai files in Gimp. Isn't this the purpose of using Gimp as an alternative to Adobe? Ok. I apologize for acting like such a noob, but on my XP Sp3 machine the advanced properties tab does not reveal any such "button labeled, Environment Labels." Under My Computer/Properties I have two tabs, "General" and Shortcut". Below is a button labeled "Advanced". Once advanced is selected I am in an Advanced Properties view that is greyed out with two check box options, 1) Run with different credentials and 2) Run in separate memory space. No such button labeled "Environment Labels" exists. Just a thought, why isn't there a simple executable run during Gimp or GhostScript setup to engage these Variable terms and connections. Should we really have to do all this to make opening Adobe files work? Please advise? apexadam-at-hotmail.com
May 16, 2009 - 19:12 — PhotoComiX

Advanced Tab/button labled "Environment Labels" does not exist

1) no the purpose of gimp is not to open or Edit AI, EPS or PDF That may be the purpose of Inkscape, gimp work with bitmap not with vector. still may open some of that files even if is far to be his purpose 2) I solved but in another way since i miss not some option but all "my computer" ( i have no idea how is translated in my language, i can't find nothing similar) So i did something deprecated but that worked well for me, i copy the 2 GS "exe" and i move the copy in the Gimp "bin folder. Not the clean way but solved
April 13, 2009 - 23:40 — Anonymous

Just a thank you!

Guys, Just a quick thank you!. With your solution, i got the GIMP to open my EPS files! Thank you, John.
January 6, 2009 - 11:39 — Anonymous

Thanxs, it was what I needed

Great ! I was having that problem too and you gave me the solution. As every work needs to be paid, I pay you with a big shiny THANK YOU.
June 13, 2008 - 20:22 — sbj3

could not open eps

That did the trick. Thanks!
February 16, 2008 - 19:35 — hopper

Ghostscript

Where can I download this script from? The search results don't seem to have a valid link to download the script. ?? Thanks, hopper
February 18, 2008 - 18:36 — james.egeli

Ghostscripts

Hey Hopper, I found them @ GPL Ghostscript 8.61 released 2007-11-21 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ really slow download though. Enjoy
August 12, 2008 - 15:02 — pier59

Vista = Same PB

Hello Everyone, I had the same message as CRRAR and I followed the instructions in this thread. However, it still does not open EPS files. It installs GhostScript whenever I try to open a .eps file. Is it normal? All it does then is a warning that it was not able to interpret the file I was trying to open. I use GPL Ghostscript 8.63 and Gimp 2.4.6 on Vista Tx for any help one may provide. Pier
October 27, 2008 - 17:59 — eriseux

you must use system

you must use system variables not user variables
January 5, 2009 - 18:03 — Anonymous

Vista

I had same Problem. It function now with following uservariable GS_PROG : C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.54\bin\gswin32c.exe
September 15, 2009 - 15:53 — Anonymous

Hi, I have Vista 64 bits on

Hi, I have Vista 64 bits on hp 64 bits. gs870w32.exe does not succeed to instal
September 30, 2009 - 04:36 — Anonymous

Vista 64 bits

I am not an expert but I looked at the above and adapted it for the recent update version of ghost script and it worked for me on Vista Ultimate 32. Perhaps try the following for your vista ultimate 64: Go to Control panel > System > Advanced system settings > Environment variables System variables > 1) Select New 2) enter variable name as GS_PROG 3) try entering C:\Program Files\gs\gswin32.exe 4) select OK 5) Select OK 6) Restart Gimp (To double check look to check that you have the file gswin32.exe in the C:\Program Files\gs\ folder). If there is a folder called gswin64.exe you would refer to this instead, though it sounds like it is just the gswin32.exe file might also be used for Ultimate 64.
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