Re: [Gimp-user] Only XCF filetype recognized by Gimp 2.0

2004-03-27 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 26 March 2004 07:08 pm, David Neary wrote:
 Hi John,

 John Culleton wrote:
  There are some files hidden somewhere that
  I can't find that are preventing a usable product. I'll
  just wait until the next partition swap time and
  install 2.0 from scratch.

 If you run ldd
 /usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/postscript, you should
 get a list of libraries which your plug-in is linking to.
 In the list you might spot one with a 1.3 in the name.
 That's the dodgy one :)

 Cheers,
 Dave.

I took a variant course. I found that /usr/lib was where the 
libgimp types were hanging out. I deleted every libgimp 
file that had 1.3 in it or 2.0 in it. Then I ran make 
install again. Now it works. 

Now I can go watch TV for a while without worrying. Thanks 
for your help, and Sven's. 

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Re: [Gimp-user] Only XCF filetype recognized by Gimp 2.0

2004-03-26 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 25 March 2004 04:49 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen 
wrote:
 Hi,

 On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:28, John Culleton wrote:
  They say pioneers are distinguished by the arrows in
  their backs. I will revert to 1.25 for a bit. When I
  tried to import a scanned image into Gimp 2.0 it would
  not recognize either .ps or .tiff file types. The only
  file type listed on the open file menu is xcf, and my
  scanner can't produce that.

 Sounds like the GIMP is not finding the installed
 plug-ins at all. Which platform are you using? Are you
 using a pre-compiled version of the GIMP or did you
 compile your own?

 Is there any debug information available in the console?

 Sincerely,
 ./Brix

I had compiled Gimp as root. I operate as a regular user. 
First I discovered that the owner and group of all the Gimp 
software was 500, and not either root or my user name 
(safe.)  so I chowned everything in that directory to 
safe:users. 

Then I ran make install. I kept blowing up on permissions 
problems. So I changed permissions after each failure, 
mostly in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. Eventually I got a 
clean make install and the new Gimp has the plugins for 
different file types available.

However now I am having problems with Postscript:
Could not execute plug in Postscript
(/usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/postscript)
because it uses an obsolete version of the plug-in 
protocol.

I will go back to square 1, recompile and reinstall and see 
if that clears up the current problem. 



Bottom line, your suggestion that it was not finding the 
plug ins was correct. I still don't know why the original 
install had the screwy user and group codes. It is almost 
as if I were accessing another version of Linux on another 
partition. 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Only XCF filetype recognized by Gimp 2.0

2004-03-26 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:19 am, Sven Neumann wrote:
 Hi,

 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Weird. This looks like something that happened back in
  the pre-releases when the postscript plug-in was
  changed from ps to postscript, but people still had the
  old one hanging about. Perhaps this is an older
  plug-in? Alternatively, perhaps your plug-in cache
  hasn't updated - you might like to remove
  .gimp-2.0/pluginrc since this will be generated from
  actually requesting the plug-ins to register
  themselves.

 Just FYI: after a change of the protocol version number
 (as was done with the 2.0.0 release), an old pluginrc
 will not be used.


 Sven
I went to another Linux partition which had never had any 
form of gimp but the gimp 1.2.3 as installed by Slackware. 
I removed it using the Slack utility pkgtool. After some 
fussing around with permissions and a reboot I got Gimp 
2.0.0 to compile, run, and read and write Postscript files.  
I tested it under root and under my usual user name.

I still haven't got the glitches out of my primary 
partition, so when I need to use 2.0 I will just boot the 
other partition. There are some files hidden somewhere that 
I can't find that are preventing a usable product. I'll 
just wait until the next partition swap time and install 
2.0 from scratch.   

Thanks for all assistance. 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Only XCF filetype recognized by Gimp 2.0

2004-03-26 Thread David Neary
Hi John,

John Culleton wrote:
 There are some files hidden somewhere that 
 I can't find that are preventing a usable product. I'll 
 just wait until the next partition swap time and install 
 2.0 from scratch.   

If you run ldd /usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/postscript, you
should get a list of libraries which your plug-in is linking to.
In the list you might spot one with a 1.3 in the name. That's the
dodgy one :)

Cheers,
Dave.

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[Gimp-user] Only XCF filetype recognized by Gimp 2.0

2004-03-25 Thread John Culleton
They say pioneers are distinguished by the arrows in their 
backs. I will revert to 1.25 for a bit. When I tried to 
import a scanned image into Gimp 2.0 it would not recognize 
either .ps or .tiff file types. The only file type listed 
on the open file menu is xcf, and my scanner can't produce 
that. 

So if someone has a quick fix please post it. In the 
meantime...
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Re: [Gimp-user] Only XCF filetype recognized by Gimp 2.0

2004-03-25 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi,

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:28, John Culleton wrote:
 They say pioneers are distinguished by the arrows in their 
 backs. I will revert to 1.25 for a bit. When I tried to 
 import a scanned image into Gimp 2.0 it would not recognize 
 either .ps or .tiff file types. The only file type listed 
 on the open file menu is xcf, and my scanner can't produce 
 that. 

Sounds like the GIMP is not finding the installed plug-ins at all. Which
platform are you using? Are you using a pre-compiled version of the GIMP
or did you compile your own?

Is there any debug information available in the console?

Sincerely,
./Brix
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