On 19-06-14 13:06, Filip Sohajek wrote:
Tested on this version on 3 different versions of Ubuntu (13.10, 14.04,
14.10), without this problem.
I solved the problem. As expected, also from your comments, it was a
problem on my computer. There were a number of GIMP files in my
/usr/local folder.
gimp2 doesn't work, but:
paulo@paulo-HP-Z600-Workstation:~$ apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
Installed: 2.8.10-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.8.10-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.8.10-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
500
Public bug reported:
Trying to open a pdf file gives the message (after selecting 'all
files'):
'/home/paulo/test.pdf' failed: Unknown file type
It is possible though to export an image as pdf.
This problem started in Ubuntu 13.10 (can't remember any
specific change or update in other packages
I tried it with various pdf files, including a pdf file created in GIMP.
Never works.
And yes, I am sure, it started a few weeks ago when I was still using
Ubuntu 13.10. I only upgraded Ubuntu to 14.04 this weekend and the
problem persists.
It might be a specific problem on my system, I
Not only that, when upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 I had a complete clean
install of my Linux (for unrelated reasons). But just to make sure,
after that I did purge and install GIMP again to make sure.
On 17-06-14 22:04, Filip Sohajek wrote:
Did you try reinstall GIMP? (complete purge and clean