Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Use GIMP to edit EPS files on windows.

Install GIMP or GIMP Portable.

Go to the Ghostscript project page on Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/

Download one of the prepared Windows distributions, such as gs870w32.exe

Start the executable and follow the instructions for the installation procedure.

Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

Click the Advanced tab.

Click Environment variables

Set the GS_PROG environment variable to the full file name of the gswin32c binary (e.g. C:\gs\gsX.YY\bin\gswin32c.exe).

 

Open GIMP and open the EPS file.

 

2 comments:

  1. Tks! Worked fine! Jorge

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  2. A few questions: should I create this as a user or system variable? and should I have to create the variable or should I be replacing an existing one. Sorry, slow learner here. I've tried several times and can't get my eps image to import. Thanks.

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