Nisses

I hope somebody here at least uses this great image manipulation program...

I have a slight problem with the program, in that I should be able to import pdf-files into the program through the use of Ghostview, but even tho I have installed the latest version of Ghostview, and even tried with an older version, the program keeps giving me 3 error-boxes each time I try to open a file

In essense, he just tells me he couldn't start the daughter-process (I take it the program means it couldn't find an installation of Ghostview or couldn't execute it...)

Now my question is simply: has anybody else encountered this before, and if so: how did they resolve it?
Or, failing that: do you have a working TheGimp that can open pdf files and how did you install it?

thanks in advance

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bal8664

Might help to know if your using the GIMP in Windows Linux or Mac OS X. I Assume linux from what you've provided but ya never know.

Nisses

*head*wall*

thanks, bal8664

no I do use it in Windows unfortunately, even Mac would have been better, since they have a plug-in app that delivers this functionality... can't seem to find it for windows tho

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bal8664

Alright then, this shouldsolve your problem. First install Ghostscript ( I assume you've done this but just in case heres a link to the windows installer of the latest version Link )
make sure you note down what directory you installed it to, i believe default is C:\gs

Once installed go to control panel -> system -> advanced tab -> click environment variables button. In the new dialog that opens find the path section in the bottom list. Select that and hit the edit button.

In a text box there should be an nice long string of directories. Add to the end of that ";C:\gs\gs8.14\bin" without the quotes (be sure you add the semi-colon before it to seperate the different entries) . Or if you installed it to a different directory replace it with that directory followed by the sub directories \gs8.14\bin

Hit ok a few times to close the dialogs, restart the gimp and opening pdf's should no longer be a problem. Enjoy the GIMP, i've been a GIMP user since before version 1.0, so if you have any other questions feel free to ask

Nisses

great stuff! that did seem to do the trick. Thanks alot.

Now, off to fine-tune this thing for some more quality imports, wheeee

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