On 01/11/2014 23:45, Eric A. Borisch wrote:
Are you able to open something that uses a plugin, like a png? My gimp
starts up, but none of the plugins (required for most file types) are
working.
I have had a quick explore and I am finding the same as you - so I take
back what I said about MacPorts Gimp working OK.
My copy of MacPorts Gimp only seems to be able to open .xcf files -
which I think is is Gimp's native file format
Gimp Preferences/Folders/Plug-ins says that the Plug-in folders are:
/Users/*whoeveryouare*/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/plug-ins
/Applications/MacPorts/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
The first of these is presumably for the individual user's plug-ins and
in my installation it is empty.
The second of these is part of the Gimp bundle so I guess it is
read-only for users. Somehow it is actually aliased to:
'/opt/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/' which is the place you would expect
the machinery to be. If I list the files in this folder, it includes:
file-aa file-bmp file-cel file-compressor
file-csource file-desktop-link file-dicom file-faxg3 file-fits
file-fli
file-gbr file-gif-load file-gif-save file-gih file-glob
file-header file-html-table file-ico file-jp2-load file-jpeg
file-mng
file-openraster.py file-pat file-pcx file-pdf-load
file-pdf-save file-pix file-png file-pnm file-ps
file-psd-load
file-psd-save file-psp file-raw file-sgi file-sunras file-svg
file-tga file-tiff-load file-tiff-save file-uri file-wmf file-xbm
file-xjt file-xmc file-xpm file-xwd
So it looks like the plug-ins are there but they are not loaded/initialised.
UPDATE - Gregory Seidman's message has just come through - this is a
known problem - there is already a ticket:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45309
In the past, I have tended to prefer the packaged version of Gimp you
can download from
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html
I was playing with the MacPorts version to see how it compared with the
packaged version - but for the moment, I would stick with the packaged
version but keep an eye on the progress of the ticket
Regards
David Rowe
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