Gimp on Centos 5 has somehow lost its ability to load a pdf file on three (i386) different computers. I'm pretty sure that this used to work.
When I try to load a PDF file I get the initial box titled "Load Postscript" with rendering and antialiasing options, but when I hit OK I get an error message: Opening "filename" failed: Plug-In could not open image."
Comparing between Centos 5 and Centos 6 I see that I have a file named file-pdf in the gimp plugins directory on Centos 6 x86_64 (/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins) but that file is not preset on the Centos 5 boxes..
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Frank Cox wrote:
Gimp on Centos 5 has somehow lost its ability to load a pdf file on three (i386) different computers. I'm pretty sure that this used to work.
just a stab in the dark here -- upstream issued an update to poppler / evince that obsoleted xpdf (gratuitiously) mid ABI lifecycle in 5, seemingly for a security matter that seemed, to me to be a mild local exposure, only
$ ldd /usr/bin/gimp | grep pop $
perhaps a needed helper application is now absent?
-- Russ herrold
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:47:39 -0400 (EDT) R P Herrold wrote:
perhaps a needed helper application is now absent?
If I convert a pdf to a ps file using pdf2ps (included in the ghostscript rpm), gimp can load that pdf file without any problem.
Gimp can load a pdf file on Centos 6.
Something has got blown up only in Centos 5's gimp that didn't affect gimp in Centos 6.
Gimp can still render postscript on Centos 5, it just doesn't know how to extract it from the pdf any more.
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