[Gimp-user] OT: Stubborn PSD file

Sven Neumann sven at gimp.org
Fri Apr 4 00:28:10 PDT 2008


Hi,

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 13:04 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a 14 Mb PSD file that I can't seem to open in GIMP or
> imagemagick.  In GIMP, the progress bar does to 100% and then stays
> there for a long time - until I cancel. The 'convert' and 'identify'
> commands do not complete either, and adding -verbose doesn't print
> anything to the terminal.
> 
> So, anyone out there have an idea of what to try next?  This image is
> supposedly a template for a trade show booth and can be downloaded
> here:
> http://206.188.197.107/graphics/E120.zip

Opening this image in GIMP 2.5 (the version from SVN trunk) gives the
error message: "Unsupported color mode: CMYK". So it looks like there's
not much hope unless someone interested picks up the PSD file format
spec and adds CMYK->RGB conversion to the PSD load plug-in.


Sven




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