So, I love running GIMP, it’s good fun. Easy once you learn it, lightish on resources and best of all it’s free. The PortableApps.com edition has been getting some loving from me of late – who can complain when it brings your settings along easily! :D

I tried opening an eps file the other day and ran into a problem – GhostScript isn’t installed as standard.

After installing the 64-bit version for windows from here, there was only one more thing to do. Google-fu got me to a german-language page (translation here) that showed me most of how to fix it. Below is a sample default.env file to show the Gimp where to go ;) The file has to be %GIMPFOLDER%\App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\environ\default.env and has to have all the extra newlines according to the original page (and it worked after I did that, don’t ask.

# Example entry in files like these

# FOOPATH=/path/to/foo/stuff

 

Path=C:\Program Files\Gimp-2.0\bin

 

GS_LIB=C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.63\lib\

 

GS_PROG=C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gswin32c.exe