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"not a picture" error on SVG files, ghostscript is installed
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:45 pm
by arcooke
Hey. I've searched around and seen this question come up several times in reference to PDF files. The suggestion always seems to be .. install ghostscript. I have it. And it needs to be the same bitness as XnConvert. It is. I've seen that it needs to be in your $PATH env variable. It is (I think?)
I'm on Linux
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XnConvert Version 1.76 - un*x x64 (Jan 15 2018) - Libformat version 7.16
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$ locate bin/ghostscript
/usr/bin/ghostscript
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$ echo "$PATH"
/home/<me>/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
And yet still all SVGs I open have a white thumbnail on the Input tab, and all of them say "0x0x0 : not a picture" when I run the conversion process.
Sorry to ask this for the zillionth time but I did my due diligence here and I'm still not getting anywhere with this. Thanks
Re: "not a picture" error on SVG files, ghostscript is installed
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:30 pm
by XnTriq
Welcome to the forum, arcooke.
Ghostscript is needed for converting
AI, (E)PS, and PDF files.
The batch-conversion engine of XnViewMP comes with all the features incuded in XnConvert plus native support for the
SVG format, but you have to remove the filename extension (
svg) from the
Exclude field in
Tools →
Settings… →
File list →
Custon filter.
Re: "not a picture" error on SVG files, ghostscript is installed
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 4:49 am
by arcooke
XnTriq wrote: Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:30 pm
Welcome to the forum, arcooke.
Ghostscript is needed for converting
AI, (E)PS, and PDF files.
The batch-conversion engine of XnViewMP comes with all the features incuded in XnConvert plus native support for the
SVG format, but you have to remove the filename extension (
svg) from the
Exclude field in
Tools →
Settings… →
File list →
Custon filter.
Thank you for the reply. I just tried what you suggested but I'm still getting the same error. Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks again. Great software you guys have here.
Re: "not a picture" error on SVG files, ghostscript is installed
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:45 pm
by XnTriq
arcooke wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 4:49 amThank you for the reply. I just tried what you suggested but I'm still getting the same error. Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks for the screenshots. Could you please upload one of the SVGs (as ZIP, RAR or 7-Zip archive) whicht aren't recognized?