Hi Pat, Thank you for your kind offer to help me in this matter. I did as you suggested with a clean reinstall from the website of the latest version. Unfortunately, I still get the same problem. You will see by the screenshots attached to this message, I have a list of PNG files which I want to open which gimp doesn't recognise. You will also in the second screen shot that only XCF files are recognised.
If this is not your territory, I'll take your suggestion and post this problem on the gimp users website. Please do you have the address of the most appropriate website to use. Thanks Steve From: Pat David <patda...@gmail.com> To: stephen burton <steveburt...@yahoo.co.uk>; "gimp-web-list@gnome.org" <gimp-web-list@gnome.org> Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 20:27 Subject: Re: [Gimp-web] Gimp 2.8 download Hi Steve, The official download location is on the website: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/The latest version will be 2.8.20. Can you try with that version, and then we can start troubleshooting what it might be?Also - you may have better luck asking this on the GIMP-user list (this list is about the website). pat On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:40 PM stephen burton via gimp-web-list <gimp-web-list@gnome.org> wrote: Please could someone out there give me some advice. Despite downloading gimp 2 from various websites, I have the same problem in that the program won't recognise any common file extension for photos. The only extension it recognises is the native XCF. I| have used earlier versions of gimp without this problem. It's as though there are no plug-ins with the downloaded program. I'm not only experienced user, so I feel out my depths. Please would you tell me where I can go to get some advice. My OS is Windows 7 on a 64-bit machine. Thank you Steve _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list -- https://patdavid.net GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list