Ghostscript-Dateien (eps) in Gimp importieren

Gimp bringt eine Funktion mit, eps-Dokumente zu importieren. Leider scheint aber in der Version 2.8.x ein Fehler in der dafür zuständigen dll vorhanden zu sein, weshalb zwar der Export nach eps klappt, der Import aber mit einer Fehlermeldung wie „PostScript-Datei »C:\…\*.eps« konnte nicht interpretiert werden“ fehlschlägt.

Das Problem lässt sich jedoch sehr einfach beheben:
Zunächst müsst ihr euch Ghostscript herunterladen und installieren. Die jeweils aktuellste Version gibt es unter http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html (In der Spalte GPL Release). Wichtig: sucht euch die jeweils zu eurem Betriebssystem passende (32/64 bit) Version, damit später das Zusammenspiel mit Gimp klappt.
Nun geht ihr folgendermaßen vor (x.yy ist die Ghostscript-Version, zz ist die bit-Zahl eures Systems, also 32 oder 64):

  1. C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin\libgs-8.dll zur Sicherung in einen separaten Ordner verschieben
  2. C:\Program Files\gs\gsx.yy\bin\gsdllzz.dll auf den Desktop kopieren
  3. Kopierte gsdllzz.dll umbenennen in libgs-8.dll
  4. Die so umbenannte Datei verschieben nach C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin\

Wenn ihr das erledigt habt, könnt ihr Gimp starten und zum Test eine eps-Datei importieren. Nun sollte alles wie gewünscht funktionieren.

 

Hinweis: Solange das Problem in Gimp nicht behoben wird, müsst ihr obiges nach jedem Update von Gimp wiederholen, weil der Installer die kaputte Datei wiederherstellt.

10 thoughts on “Ghostscript-Dateien (eps) in Gimp importieren

  • Hey,
    vielen Dank! Hat super funktioniert. Ist aber eine Schande, dass GIMP nicht die richtige DLL mitliefert.

    • Da scheint wohl irgendwas beim Erstellen dieser Version schiefgelaufen zu sein. Das Problem bei Gimp ist leider die Mannstärke des Teams. Falls es dich interessiert, hier mal der Zusammende Rundbrief der Gimp-Developer. Wie dir vielleicht auffällt, steht bei fast jeder Änderung Michael Natterer dabei, manchmal sogar alleine. Im Umkehrschluss heißt das, dass Gimp im großen und ganzen zwar auf dem Papier viele Mitwirkende hat (deren Arbeit im Bugtracker, beim Patchen von Bugs, in der Dokumentation ich auch gar nicht schmälern möchte – zumal ich selbst hierzu gehöre 😀 ), sich aber nur eine Person wirklich andauernd um den Code an sich kümmert. Entsprechend lange dauert es leider bis neue Versionen herauskommen, in denen sowas dann gefixt wird. Wenn du möchtest kannst du gerne Beitragen, indem du dich an der Suche nach Bugs beteiligst und diese im Bugtracker meldest, hilfst, die Webseite zu verbessern oder sogar am Code mitarbeitest. Ein guter Einstieg ist es, sich an der Gimp Developer-Mailinglist anzumelden.:

      Hello,

      We hope you had great winter holidays! Here’s our slightly belated 2014 report.

      Both GIMP and GEGL projects have been quite active. We didn’t add any
      new new tools in 2014, but you are going to _love_ how we improved
      existing ones.

      João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno added „fill“ arrange modes to the
      Align Tool to evenly distribute items across an image or some other
      reference object.

      The Blend tool got a major redesign by Michael Henning, with
      additional work by Michael Natterer and Simon Budig. Now you can tweak
      the gradient’s end points positions _after_ you created the fill. Much
      like the rectangular selection and crop tools, the end points have an
      active zone around them to allow easy grabbing and repositioning. The
      active zone hihglights disappear when you move the mouse pointer away
      which makes previewing your changes a lot easier. To finalize the
      gradient fill, you need to press Enter.

      The foreground selection tool now uses much improved algorithms for
      separating objects, especial the complex ones like hair. One of the
      algorithms (global) was earlier created by Jan Rüegg, the other
      (Levin) — by Danny Robson. Michael Natterer updated the tool’s
      options, made individual strokes undoable, and moved some of the
      controls to the canvas. However, performance of the tool needs to be
      improved. We’d appreciate some help here.

      Speaking of selection tools, the ones like Select by Color and Fuzzy
      Select now have a Draw Mask option contributed by Michael Natterer.
      What it does is highlighting an area that will be selected when you
      release mouse button. It’s rather helpful if you need to e.g. evaluate
      the area that will be added to an existing selection so that you could
      make better choices at once, without going through the undo routine.
      The color is currently hardcoded to magenta, but this design decision
      is absolutely negotiable.

      The Seamless Clone tool earlier created by Barak Itkin got some much
      needed love from Jehan who made it a lot more responsive. Now you can
      paste and seamlessly blend into the background pictures that are
      larger that 100x100px.

      Alexia returned to work on the brush engine again. As the result, all
      brush-based tools now have a a few more options: locking brush size to
      zoom (whether brush size should follow changes in zoom), configurable
      hardness and force. There’s also a new fallback brush cursor, a
      crosshairs-shaped one, used only as last resort.

      The text tool was updated by Mukund Sivamaran to use HarfBuzz library
      directly instead of relying on deprecated Pango functions. This will
      make sure we always provide excellent support for complex writing
      systems such as Arabic, Devanagari etc.

      To make things even more fun, we added 64bit per color channel
      precision to GIMP. One part of GIMP that already uses it is the FITS
      loader/saver for astrophysicists. But that bears the question: can
      GIMP reliably perform when dealing with such resources-hungry images?

      Well, we made quite a few changes to assist you there. First of all,
      GIMP now has a switch in the Preferences dialog to enable/disable
      OpenCL-based hardware acceleration globally (that is, including
      plugins that can make use of this). When applying a preview to GIMP
      will also start redrawing the visible part of the image first (the
      viewport) and work on the rest next.

      Finally, Øyvind Kolås worked on initial threading support in GEGL.
      This is still a somewhat experimental feature. The team would happily
      accept input from people who can give this thorough thoughtful
      testing.

      There have been some changes in file formats support too.

      First of all, we finally merged the updated PSD loader/saver that
      Simon Lui worked on in 2013. In a nutshell, Simon ported the plugin to
      GEGL, added support for 16bit files and parsing of advanced features
      such as text layers and adjustment layers. But since GIMP doesn’t have
      public API for handling text layers, the app still can’t load text
      layers as text. Somone would need to fix this. We also need
      non-destructive editing implemented in GIMP to make use of the
      ajustment layers parser.

      Additionally, Mukund Sivamaran improved and fixed a lot of code to
      support various file formats, and Roman Lebedev from the darktable
      project added loading and saving of 32bit TIFF files.

      Primary contributors to color management implementation in GIMP this
      year were Elle Stone and Michael Natterer. They added automatic
      generation of an sRGB color profile matching the one by ArgyllCMS, a
      widget to display basic ICC profile metadata, and created a new image
      profile API that is now used throughout GIMP.

      A lot of work has gone into improving user interface and usability.
      One notable fix is that now you can drag anything like a layer or a
      channel between opened images in the single-window mode.

      Michael Natterer introduced an important workflow change. Before, when
      you switched tools in the middle of e.g. rotating or adjusting colors,
      the change got lost. Now GIMP commits the change and _then_ switches
      to another tool.

      We also added TITO, a search system created in 2013 by Srihari
      Sriraman. Since GIMP has so many menu items that new users can easily
      get lost, by pressing the ‚/‘ key you can open a search dialog and
      start typing a keyword that you think a certain feature should have in
      its name or description, then (if present) select it in the list
      below. Here’s some more information about it:
      http://sriharisriraman.in/blog/2013/09/15/gimp-tito/.

      Title bar and status bar can now additionally display layer dimensions
      and the current ICC profile. Head over to ‚Edit – Preferences – Title
      & Status‘ and use codes %x, %y and %X, %Y for the former, and %o for
      the latter. These features were added by João S. O. Bueno and Michael
      Natterer.

      In some cases it makes sense to have a dial-like widget to quickly set
      rotation angle. Michael Natterer took the existing widget from the
      Color Rotate plugin, modernized it and updated all (or nearly all)
      relevant parts of GIMP’s interface to use it, including filters based
      on GEGL.

      Speaking of which, we are now beginning to create custom user
      interfaces for these filters. The first two to have those are
      Convolution Matrix and Mono Mixer. They combine the old interafaces
      with best bits of the generic GEGL tool like saving and restoring
      presets and generating preview right on the canvas.

      Smaller, but useful changes include, but are not limited to:
      automatically updated Recent Colors palette, saving and restoring all
      currently active tag filters for assets (brushes, gradients etc.)
      between sessions, canceling ongoing operation such as transformation
      by clicking on the title of the on-canvas progress indicator.

      Many more existing GIMP filters have been ported to GEGL, and others
      were improved, which does bring us closer to releasing v2.10, although
      we are not there yet. Most work here was done by Thomas Manni, Michael
      Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Dimitris Papavasiliou, Daniel Sabo, Pascal
      Giessler, Téo Mazars, Michael Henning, Mukund Sivamaran, and others.

      Øyvind Kolås also added a new GEGL operation to perform a
      equlinear/gnomonic or little planet/stereographic projection of a
      equirectangular input image. You can find it in ‚Filters – Map‘ under
      ‚Panorama Projection‘ name.

      We also continued to add compatibility code so that old scripts and
      plugins would still work with new GIMP. This is also a work in
      progress.

      Throughout the year Ed J was working on the Perl bindings for GIMP
      that had been abandoned. This code is in a much better shape now,
      available on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/ETJ/Gimp-2.30_05.

      Two work-in-progress projects that we consider important are advanced
      metadata support and MyPaint brush engine support.

      The former, worked on by Hartmut Kuhse, extends IPTC/XMP metadata
      support to single layers and even channels. Here is the branch:
      https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/?h=gimp-attributes-wip. Please
      note that it requires bleeding edge build of the gexiv2 library.

      Hartmut Kuhse started working on layer-level support for metadata.
      This means, and in a way it brings the plan laid out by Commons
      Machinery (http://bit.ly/1CTekPO) closer to reality. Previous work:
      http://bit.ly/1zvKtXo.

      The latter, worked on by Michael Natterer and Jehan, adds a new highly
      experimental tool that uses libmypaint to paint with MyPaint brushes.
      It’s another project we started after looking at what’s been worked on
      in the gimp-painter fork.

      Some interesting changes have been landing to GEGL throughout the year
      thanks to Jon Nordby who works on The Grid, an artificial intelligence
      based web publishing tool. The part of The Grid that handles images
      relies on GEGL, you can read more about that in this extensive
      coverage: http://bit.ly/1wPIISJ.

      While working on this project, Jon improved some existing GEGL
      features and added new ones like the gradient-map operation, support
      for CMYK JPEG files, and an image comparison command-line tool.
      Shortly before the new year he started moving more features to GEGL
      like .json graph serialization and meta-operation loading from such
      graphs. What it means is that you will be able to visually program new
      GEGL operations by connecting blocks in Flowhub (https://flowhub.io/)
      and use these operations in GIMP.

      A project we hold very high in regard, while not being all that much
      affiliated, is GIMP Magazine started in 2013 by Steve Czaika. It’s a
      great resource for GIMP users who aspire to become better artists and
      photographers. If you are not familiar with it, do check it out and
      please consider financially supporting it: http://gimpmagazine.org/

      Overall, the amount of changes in 2012-2014 does suggest that a new
      release is overdue. However, being a team of volunteers, we cannot
      estimate delivery date of v2.10 yet. Helping us to get v2.9 released
      would be a major contribution though, and one of the ways you can do
      that is by carefully testing all filters we ported to GEGL, then
      telling us if they work differently, miss options, have bad default
      values etc.

      To that end, you can use nightly builds of GIMP:

      Windows: http://nightly.darkrefraction.com/gimp/
      Ubuntu Linux: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp-edge

      And here’s a wiki page to track the reviews:

      http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Porting_filters_to_GEGL/UI_review

      Let us know if you are serious about this and need a wiki account.

      We do humbly suggest to use IRC for more verbose communication with
      the team though.

      Alexandre Prokoudine
      On behalf of the GIMP team
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