Any ghostscript experts (Opensuse 10.3)?

[aceO07]

I'm using a pretty plain OpenSuse 10.3 that I installed yesterday. It's running under VMware on XP.

[resolved] There hasn't been much installed/changed on this version. I've installed a new version of ImageMagick (6.4.0), which used to be 6.3.5. The original version of gs is 8.15, which is from 2 years ago, there is no recent version in the OpenSuse repository. 8.62 is the latest version.

I need to install gs 8.60+ so I can have eps support. However, when I compile, I get these errors 'gx_device_cups' has no member named 'header'. 'gx_device_cups' has no member named stream'. What is the problem? Am I missing something else? I haven't found much about this on google. [/resolved]

New problem. I'm trying to convert an .eps file to a graphic using ImageMagick's convert program. It will work on Ubuntu, but not on OpenSuse. I don't have the exact program versions, but they're all at least recent enough to support eps.
convert new.eps new.png
However I'm getting this error. 'convert: postscript delegate failed'

I'm using CUPS 1.3.7, GS 6.4.0, ImageMagick 8.62.

[resolved]
System was missing dev libs for graphic formats, png jpg etc..
[/resolved]

 

[Nothinman]

You probably just need to install a handful of development packages.

 

[aceO07]

I upgraded my version of CUPS and then ghostscript compiled/installed without a hitch.

I needed the newer gs to get eps format support. Now that I've upgraded CUPS, GS, and ImageMagick to the latest stable versions, it still doesn't work. With Ubuntu, I could just apt-get all those apps and eps converting worked. In OpenSuse, the apps were fairly old and I had to compile and install them. It wasn't hard and they seem to work for the most part, except what I need it for.

Any experts with ghostscript and eps file conversion (to png/gif)?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

You recompiled the latest imagemagick as well?

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
You recompiled the latest imagemagick as well?

Yup. All the versions are as I updated in the main post. CUPS 1.3.7, GS 6.4.0, ImageMagick 8.62. Not the absolute latest, but at least newer than on my Ubuntu 7.10 setup which does work with eps files. There were no compile errors for any of these apps.

I just wonder if there is something different in how Ubuntu has it all setup or if there are additional programs which make this work (which I'm not aware of).

 

[aceO07]

I just tried to install OpenSuse 11beta to see if their updated apps would solve my problems, but their Live CD has a major bug that it won't let me install the OS.

 

[aceO07]

The odd thing is that (eps -> image) conversion only works under Ubuntu. I even have gs and imagemagick installed under Windows XP and that doesn't work either.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
You recompiled the latest imagemagick as well?

Yup. All the versions are as I updated in the main post. CUPS 1.3.7, GS 6.4.0, ImageMagick 8.62. Not the absolute latest, but at least newer than on my Ubuntu 7.10 setup which does work with eps files. There were no compile errors for any of these apps.

I just wonder if there is something different in how Ubuntu has it all setup or if there are additional programs which make this work (which I'm not aware of).

That might be your problem. The latest GPL Ghostscript is 8.62.

 

[aceO07]

Oops. I got them missed up. Imagemagick is 6.4.0 and GS is 8.62

 

[aceO07]

I figured it out. The system was missing the dev libs for png and other formats.