GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 504732
Eps plugin dialog freezes
Last modified: 2008-10-30 20:06:36 UTC
Hi there. On Macaintosh opening a eps file brings up the import dialog, but then the progress bar freezes. Running gimp 2.4.3 and GPL Ghostscript 8.61 (2007-11-21)
There shouldn't be a progress bar at all when the dialog is brought up. Perhaps you can explain this better? A screen-shot might help.
Created attachment 101343 [details] screenshot of the progressbar of an eps import
Ok, so the freeze happens after the user has confirmed the Postscript plug-in dialog. At this point the plug-in waits for input from the Ghostscript process. Can you check if that process has been started and if it is running?
Created attachment 101352 [details] gs is started gs is started after i press import.
I just checked. We also had this problem with gimp 2.4.2. I don't know if this is maybe a gs error. I can open a file with gs via the terminal. I really don't have the knownledge about these things, so sorry if I act a little dumb here.
Well, it looks like a communication problem between the postscript plug-in and gs. They are supposed to talk to each other over a pipe. This should actually work on Mac OS X, but it looks like there's a problem. Perhaps the problem is in gs, perhaps in the plug-in. As a workaround you could define USE_REAL_OUTPUTFILE in postscript.c, as it is done for Win32.
I will also commit the "bug" to Macports. I know that it worked with previous versions. thanks.
Does using the #define I told you about solve the problem?
Yes, but i does not change anything. Just to make it clear. i change the phostscript.c in the source and then compile the gimp? That's what i did.
If that doesn't change anything then the problem is not the communication over the pipe. Looks like gs is not producing any output. Since we didn't change anything in the postscript plug-in since 2.4.0 was released, this appears to be a problem with your build or with Ghostscript.
I also think so. We try to fix it. Thanks for your help