• Tip: Open eps files with Gimp

    by  • April 22, 2008 • Imaging, Tips • 21 Comments

    For the past few months I’ve been doing a lot of work editing images in .eps format. Since I really like my Gimp, I spent weeks trying to find a nice way to edit these images with this program, instead of running to Photoshop. Well, I was finally able to find a solution I now share with you.

    The steps you’ll need to follow are actually quite simple:

    1. Download Gimp and install it;
    2. Download Ghostscript and install it;
    3. Go to the  /bin directory of where you installed Ghostscript
    4. copy all .exe files (may be 2 or 3) and paste in Gimp’s main directory (where gimp is installed);
    5. Start gimp and try opening eps files.

    That should do it! If you’re on Linux, just make sure Ghostscript is installed, it should be easy to find in Synaptic for example.

    Via: Gimptalk.

     

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    21 Responses to Tip: Open eps files with Gimp

    1. tanerNo Gravatar
      May 4, 2008 at 5:45 am

      very thanks :D

    2. SteveNo Gravatar
      October 23, 2008 at 12:06 pm

      Thanks very much. Worked like a champ!

    3. PhilNo Gravatar
      November 10, 2008 at 12:25 pm

      Worked a treat, cheers

    4. Jean-MarcNo Gravatar
      November 25, 2008 at 11:46 pm

      Haha, that’s so easy!

      Thanks a lot for this hint!

    5. MarinaNo Gravatar
      March 18, 2009 at 4:39 pm

      It works! Thanks a lot!

    6. IceAceNo Gravatar
      March 31, 2009 at 9:05 pm

      Had to put them in GIMP’s \bin directory to get it to work.

    7. AlenNo Gravatar
      April 20, 2009 at 9:25 pm

      Very Nice. Excellent! It works like a dream!

    8. luigiNo Gravatar
      May 12, 2009 at 2:16 pm

      Thank you… great solution

    9. christianNo Gravatar
      November 30, 2009 at 2:01 am

      Fantastic ! thanks.

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    11. Ademar FilhoNo Gravatar
      January 1, 2010 at 5:09 pm

      Thx!

      Just Add…
      Environment variable – System variable:

      Name: GS_PROG
      Value: C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gswin32.exe

      xD

    12. LeratoNo Gravatar
      February 19, 2010 at 7:57 am

      I was stuck for weeks. thanks for the great solution.

    13. KwetterNo Gravatar
      August 20, 2010 at 1:54 pm

      thanks! just what i needed!

    14. ShinerNo Gravatar
      September 19, 2010 at 9:12 am

      Superb suggestion and works a treat

    15. DominicNo Gravatar
      October 15, 2010 at 8:51 am

      u can open them alreight but i dunno how to adjust the quality of the image/s…i was thinking that it can be a lot better in quality and resolution because the .EPS file is like bigger in size..how can i adjust the quality then?

    16. BOBCATNo Gravatar
      November 16, 2010 at 6:56 pm

      Also had to put them in GIMP’s \bin directory to get it to work.

      Solved a lot of problems /thanks

    17. PedroNo Gravatar
      November 26, 2010 at 5:28 am

      Thanks, worked for me. Had to undo my misguided attempts and other fixes suggested elsewhere on the web.

    18. DavidNo Gravatar
      February 29, 2012 at 12:44 am

      Heck yes, thank you! Copying over the environment variable, the path to ghost script didn’t work, so I’m glad this did! Thanks!

    19. SammyNo Gravatar
      June 9, 2012 at 4:17 am

      Thanks for great tip. I’ll try it in a minute.

    20. SammyNo Gravatar
      June 9, 2012 at 5:23 am

      Super! it worked! Thanks a lot!

    21. FrankNo Gravatar
      March 11, 2013 at 7:54 pm

      With GIMP 2.8.4 is works out of the box on Windows 32 bit if you tick “Ghostscript” in the installer. On Windows 64 bit, the installer install the 64 bit version of GIMP which doesn’t works.

      Solution: Start the installer with /32 on the command line to force the installation of GIMP 32 bit on 64 bit Windows.

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