[Scribus] Importing eps and pdf

[hans eisl]

Gregory Pittman schrieb:

>h.eisl at aon.at wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I made my first steps with scribus. I tried to import pictures in a
>>>>scribus document - and there I had a problem with eps-files.
>>>>I couldn't import any eps-file. I tried some different types (saved from
>>>>photoshop and illustrator, cmyk and rgb) and the two different ways:
>>>>image frame with strg-d or open with file>open.
>>>>I also couldn't import pdf-files.
>>>>This file types work well: jpg, png, tif and psd.
>>>>Is there any hint?
>>>>I worked on a windows XP with scribus 1.3.3.9
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>>>Just what exactly did you do? Did you get any error messages
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>>>File->Import->EPS/PS
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>>>Select ps file
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>>>A progress dialogue box shoul appear
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>>>After it is 'imported', you can then move it into position.
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>>>It really does work, truly.
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>>>Owen
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>>When I choose the methode "file>import>import eps/eps" I get the message "Importing File: 'file name' failed".
>>When I tried to import eps-pictures within a picture frame (with cntrl-D) than appears no message, only the red diagonally lines changed from black to red.
>>I tried different eps-files, i.e. saved from illustrator (as illustrator-eps version 7.0 and 10.0), this file contains only few simple things (one box, one bezier-line and one line of text), and a different pictures saved from photoshop.
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>Is it possible you don't have ghostscript installed? Or that Scribus 
>doesn't know where it is?
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>Greg
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I installed ghostscript before I installed scribus, and I in 
file>preferences>external tools>ps/eps interpreter I see the correct 
path (C:/Programme/gs/gs8.54/bin/gswin32c.exe).
I tried a reinstallation of scribus, but this didn't change anything.
Btw I can open all the eps-pictures with ghostview.
Hans