: Importing eps files as layers in Gimp I have been trying to create an animation using 300 eps files. When I try to open all the 300 files as layers (File -> open As Layers), a dialog box

@Heady304

If you have GIMP-GAP (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Using_GAP/) installed then you can use it to load your files.

1) Make sure that all of your frames are named sequentially[*] using a pattern such as "filename_0001.eps", "filename_0002.eps", "filename_0003.eps", ...

2) Open the first file using "Edit->Open" -- this will present you with the postscript settings dialog box. (You will only be presented this dialog once.)

3) Perform "Video->Frames to Image..." to convert the file sequence to a multilayer image.

[*] If your filenames aren't sequential, you can rename them using GNU BASH by running the following command in the directory containing the .eps files.

f=(*.eps);i=($(seq -w 1 ${#f[@]}));for n in $(seq 0 $(expr ${#f[@]} - 1 ));do mv ${f[n]} frame_${i[n]}.eps;done

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