Gimp Tutorial photo editing blending images. Gimp Tutorial 1 Transparent And Fading Backgrounds. Open .eps files on GIMP for Windows | iTechLog. Posted by Alex Costa on September 18, 2009 As usual this post is a self help note, but as it’s public I hope it helps someone else. If you want to open .eps or .ps files with GIMP on Windows you will need to install Ghostscript (download it from After successful installation you will need to create an environment variable called GS_PROG on Windows. To do this just follow these steps: Right-click on the ‘My Computer‘ Icon and select propertiesClick on the advanced tabClick on Environment Variable buttonUnder either User variables or System variables click on “New” Set Variable name : GS_PROGSet Variable path: C:\Progam Files\gs\gs864w32\bin\gswin32.exe – this is where yous gswin32.exe resides, make sure you type the correct path.
Click “OK” for everything and then open GIMP, you should now be able to open .eps and .ps files Technorati Tags: .eps, Environment variable, Ghostscript, GIMP, GS_PROG, Microsoft, postscript, Windows QR Code for this page. Steps to open EPS files in GIMP | WordPress Specialist. GIMP is a popular free image manipulation application. It’s possible in GIMP to manipulate all sorts of image formats including EPS (which is commonly used with Adobe and CorelDRAW). GIMP however needs Ghostscript installed and associated in order to open EPS files. Update: Various combinations of Windows and Ghostscript no longer seem to work per the instructions above. Please see the comments for how others are opening .eps files in Gimp (and please leave a comment if the solution does or doesn’t work for you).
Get solutions from others. Click Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail when you leave a comment below. If you try to open an EPS image with GIMP you may see a warning similar to that as below. If you get this message then there are a few steps you need to perform (the steps below are for Windows7 64bit however just change the Ghostscript path for 32bit Windows): The Edit System Variable window will now look something like: You’ll now be able to open EPS files in GIMP. How to make a transparent background using GIMP. Making a pressed in text effect in GIMP. GIMP: Change The Opacity/Transparency of Images & Layers.