EPS files with the Gimp? Or something else?

[Tortoise]

I have a large, colour EPS file, a vector drawn map, which I want to convert to a black and white line drawing without the filled areas.
I have been trying to get it to load into GIMP, with no luck.
GSview will load it though, and I can convert it to a bitmap, but that doesn't help me all that much - I really want to edit it as a vector file in Gimp (or something else).
Has anyone done this? Am I trying to use the wrong programs?
Is there something else more suited?
Thanks,

[fingers99]

apropos eps gives some stuff you might try. But make a back up first!

My guess is that gimp simply doesn't like that particular file. You might try

cp dodgy.eps dodgy.ps && gimp dodgy.ps

or

running eps2eps on it and seeing if Gimp will play.

[Tortoise]

Hey, that's great, in addition, I notice that the Linux version of GIMP seems MUCH better than the 'doze one. Who knew?

[fingers99]

It's certainly more stable. One thing I like about the Windows version, though is that it has (last time I looked) guash (a sort of graphical filebrowser for Gimp -- like XV's Visual Schnauzer if you've come across it) built in.

It seems to vanish from the plig-ins registry every so often. Anyway, I finally found it linked to on his site:

http://www.cs.cis.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/~narazaki/deb/guash/

there are debs there (Narazaki is a big Debian fan) and tarballs. 2.3.0-3 works just fine with Gimp 1.2.3