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Gimp m111/3/2023 ![]() from all the comments here and trying things out One thing that might possibly disqualify both, GIMP and Inkscape, for your needs is that they don' support CMYK. Postscript is a page description language.īut you can try Inkscape, because it is a vector graphic software. Pathes (vectors) are only used as a sort of tools in GIMP.ĮPS is not inevitably a vector graphic format, but a sort of container that can contain vectors, pixels and text. What you export as EPS is pixel data, raster images, not vector. You can export a SVG from there, but it only contains the path, the pure vector data, without any visual informations. That is also the reason why the SVG-file-format is not listed in the Export-dialogue, but in the context menu of the Path-dialogue. In fact it rasterizes vectors when it opens them. But no matter if it contained vector data before you opened the file in GIMP, you will not be able to export true vector graphics from GIMP. And you can also export EPS-files from GIMP. It is true that you can open EPS-files in GIMP. I drag and drop the eps into the canvas, i get the small UI dpi chooser (and a few other features) and it is imported as vector. ![]() (I really appreciate the extensive writeup)īut the key thing is Gimp makes it transparent. I am in the office now and when I get home (where Affinity) is I will try suggestion. I did not try yet to export out of Gimp as something else and bring back into Affinity I can access each individual vector shape. When I load the same eps image into Gimp (integrated with GhostScript) it 100% loads as a full vector image. Simply the eps file is imported into Affinity as a Raster image. I posted this then got invited to the beach. Ghostcript won't do any miracle, it'll depend of the file. The other one is only a preview scaled according to settings (300 PPI). The files opened in Gimp: only the 2 first images, real PS files, were correctly read. Or a bad one, that'll give error and only use the low resolution preview: It's able to convert to raster images (bmp, png, tiff), and I suppose it's was it's doing for Gimp.ĭepending of the export settings in Illustrator, and probably the features used, you can have a nice EPS file : Now, nothing prevent from instaling Ghostcript on Windows and using it (but the latest releases are without UI, only with command lines, unless you install PS_View, or GSview (the one I've got installed, and despite the page information, it's working with newer releases) that give a more rudimentary UI than in the past, sadly. That's why its used in Gimp to "read" EPS and PDF as raster images. It's able to convert some files to PDF and can get its own "printing settings". Ghostscript is what I used as virtual printer before Windows added its own. So I don't know if Ghostscript really would be a solution for Designer. If you do decide to try it on your M1 or M2-based Mac computer, we kindly ask you to please share your experience with us in the comments below.Don't know if and why GIMP opens them. Simply install the DMG and you will be off to the races. The Apple Silicon variant of GIMP 2.10.32 can be downloaded from the developer directly here. This is why we recommend every person on macOS (whichever your hardware) to update GIMP with this revision 1 of GIMP 2.10.32." ![]() It means that even for macOS on Intel, you will get the recent fix to the race condition bug which was sometimes causing crashes of GIMP (somehow we mostly saw it happen on macOS). Pagès adds, "Additionally in this revised package, dependencies have been updated, in particular babl and GEGL. "It is a bit of an early Christmas for people using Apple Silicon machines (Apple M1, M2…) as we release for the first time ever a stable version of GIMP for this architecture! It is a revision package for GIMP 2.10.32, already released a few months ago, re-built with our new MacPorts-based infrastructure on both x86_64 ('macOS on Intel' architecture) and AArch64 ('macOS on Apple Silicon')," explains Jehan Pagès, GIMP developer.ĪLSO READ: Plugable Quad HDMI Adapter adds four video ports to your MacBook or Windows PC ALSO READ: Tweetbot developer Tapbots working on Mastodon app 'Ivory' for Apple devices
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