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Message-ID:<jgvrk4ta0onaua6ap6t059mh37khrd1fjr@4ax.com>
Subject:

Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100


Hallo,

I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:

>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
(D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe)
attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<

What can I do?

Thank You,

G�nther K�hlewind

Message-ID:<Qpo3l.53928$XB5.25212@newsfe29.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:57:04 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:
> 
>>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe) attempted to
> install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Günther Kühlewind

I can't offer much advice other than I have it working in windows, XP 
SP2, Gimp 2.6.3 (portable version from portableapps.com).
Because of the error message I would think that it is most likely a 
localisation problem, however a couple of things to check.

Have the plugins worked on previous versions of Gimp? The pspi plugin 
tends to work only with simple .8bf plugins. Temporarily remove anything 
that is not certain of working.

Is the path to the photoshop plugin folder correctly set up. The PS 
filters settings dialog is now located at the bottom of the Filters menu.

I keep all my PS plugins in a separate folder away from the convoluted 
gimp structure and only put gimp plugins in the '....share\gimp\2.0
\plugin' folder. - separate them - might be worth a try. I have certainly 
had 'unable to load' error messages when the PS filter was too 
complicated for gimp and on occasions gimp start-up has hung when the 
filter was in the default gimp plugin folder..

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<4cpsk4tmt7u6l5j8q0hhaovo41c4fla7og@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100


Thank You for Your answer.

>> I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:
>> 
>>>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
>> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe) attempted to
>> install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<
>> 
>> What can I do?

>I can't offer much advice other than I have it working in windows, XP 
>SP2, Gimp 2.6.3 (portable version from portableapps.com).
>Because of the error message I would think that it is most likely a 
>localisation problem, however a couple of things to check.

I work with windows XP SP2 too, Gimp 2.6.3 (german version from
gimp.org).

>Have the plugins worked on previous versions of Gimp?

No.

>The pspi plugin tends to work only with simple .8bf plugins. Temporarily remove anything 
>that is not certain of working.

I did all your tipps and now I get the "pspi.exe Meldung":
"Could not open C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing"

The folder C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6 exists. There are several files
produced by gimp. There I manually created the file pspirc.new and
gave it all rights.

What am I supposed to do now?

Have a good Sunday evening,
G�nther K�hlewind


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<20qsk45u7h2mso66ggjc5337ofr1j9aak3@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:28 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100 schrieb Guenther Kuehlewind
<g.kuehlewind@arcor.de> :

>I work with windows XP SP2 too
Sorry, I have changed the system. Unfortunately I now use Vista-32.

G. K�hlewind


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<gnu3l.50701$LM6.29278@newsfe03.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:43:56 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:28 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100 schrieb Guenther Kuehlewind
> <g.kuehlewind@arcor.de> :
> 
>>I work with windows XP SP2 too
> Sorry, I have changed the system. Unfortunately I now use Vista-32.
> 
> G. Kühlewind

Beats me.

Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe" which 
looks correct to me.

Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and 
claims to be Vista compatible.

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi 
plugin path accordingly.

Might prove that pspi is working (or not)

Otherwise - ????????????

best of luck.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<qivsk4tb265dav7mnun2bts9u95o6arbhq@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :

>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe" which 
>looks correct to me.
I did it.

>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and 
>claims to be Vista compatible.
>
>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>
>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi 
>plugin path accordingly.

I did it too.

Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
can't be activatet.

The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" 
remains, when starting gimp.

Thank You for Your help.
G�nther


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<0Hv3l.10922$Ca4.9441@newsfe24.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:13:16 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :
> 
>>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe"
>>which looks correct to me.
> I did it.
> 
>>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and
>>claims to be Vista compatible.
>>
>>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>>
>>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi
>>plugin path accordingly.
> 
> I did it too.
> 
> Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
> can't be activatet.
> 
> The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
> C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" remains, when
> starting gimp.
> 
> Thank You for Your help.
> Günther

This is a long shot as I am not familiar with MS Vista.

For the last year-or-so I have been using Linux (as well as windows) and 
run a linux Gimp 2.4.7 and use the linux pspi plugin.

To get it to run in Linux, pspi expects a .gimp-2.2 folder - thats where 
it stores the pspirc file - which contains the pspi settings.

Try making an extra folder C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.2 just for the pspi 
settings. Everything else (pspi.exe) goes where you have it.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<JJI3l.58280$LM6.11429@newsfe03.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:03:37 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:13:16 +0000, rich wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:
> 
>> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :
>> 
>>>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe"
>>>which looks correct to me.
>> I did it.
>> 
>>>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and
>>>claims to be Vista compatible.
>>>
>>>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>>>
>>>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi
>>>plugin path accordingly.
>> 
>> I did it too.
>> 
>> Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
>> can't be activatet.
>> 
>> The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
>> C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" remains, when
>> starting gimp.
>> 
>> Thank You for Your help.
>> Günther
> 
> This is a long shot as I am not familiar with MS Vista.
> 
> For the last year-or-so I have been using Linux (as well as windows) and
> run a linux Gimp 2.4.7 and use the linux pspi plugin.
> 
> To get it to run in Linux, pspi expects a .gimp-2.2 folder - thats where
> it stores the pspirc file - which contains the pspi settings.
> 
> Try making an extra folder C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.2 just for the pspi
> settings. Everything else (pspi.exe) goes where you have it.

Thinking about it thats probably not going to work and as Jernej says its 
most likely a regional thing and the umlaut.

Going back to my first post, I use portable-gimp, just had a quick look 
and the pspirc file is held in a separate folder "DATA" in the portable 
directory structure.  It might be worth giving the portable version a try 
as it will bypass the \users\...\.gimp directory structure. It will not 
affect your existing installation. Put the pspi.exe in the portable-gimp 
plug-ins folder just the same as before and point the PS setup dialog to 
where the PS plugins reside.  It might prove that pspi can work or if it 
is a lost cause.
Only problem might be a German keyboard - dont know that one.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<zozmooihw9ib$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:19:27 +0100

on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe)
> attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<

Is any of the plugins you're trying to load translated? My guess would be
that the plugin name contains national characters, which confuses
GIMP/pspi.

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Message-ID:<0i9tk4ltb0diltha4135q31sc0m144igke@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:04 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:19:27 +0100 schrieb Jernej Simon?i? :

>Is any of the plugins you're trying to load translated? My guess would be
>that the plugin name contains national characters, which confuses
>GIMP/pspi.

Thank you for your mail. Your idea to find the fault may certainly be
right -- but unfortunately I chose my christian name "G�nther" as
account name. And the result is: 
"Could not open
C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing"
With another account name there is no more problem.

Thus I have to try to change my account name in the Vista System.

Thank you for your help (the same to rich too) and a merry Christmas
to you,
G�nther (with the horrible "�" in the name)

Message-ID:<ujybt40ew89n$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:59:04 +0100


on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:04 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Thus I have to try to change my account name in the Vista System.

Instead of changing the account name, just try this: right-click (My)
Computer, choose Properties, click Advanced system settings, go to Advanced
tab, click Environment Variables, and create a new User variable
GIMP2_DIRECTORY, and put something like c:\gimp-settings as value.
Afterwards, run GIMP, and it should use this directory instead of your user
profile.

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Message-ID:<rqvvk4pa21tp688l4m8dp6lloh9q0tetn7@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:05:51 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:59:04 +0100 schrieb Jernej Simon :

>Instead of changing the account name, just try this: right-click (My)
>Computer, choose Properties, click Advanced system settings, go to Advanced
>tab, click Environment Variables, and create a new User variable
>GIMP2_DIRECTORY, and put something like c:\gimp-settings as value.
>Afterwards, run GIMP, and it should use this directory instead of your user
>profile.

Thank you for this advice. It works (modificated) fine. But clicking
"advanced system settings" needs administrator rights and then I
modify the admin-environment. Therefore I modified the environment
variables in the registry.

The other advice from rich works fine too, because the portable
application avoids the critical name "g�nther" in the path.

Thank you and again I wish you a merry christmas,
G�nther


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<1989vxm5gynbm$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:40:44 +0100

on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:05:51 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Thank you for this advice. It works (modificated) fine. But clicking
> "advanced system settings" needs administrator rights and then I
> modify the admin-environment. Therefore I modified the environment
> variables in the registry.

Yeah, Microsoft didn't think certain things through with UAC - you actually
need to disable it if you want to do some things as regular user.

> The other advice from rich works fine too, because the portable
> application avoids the critical name "günther" in the path.

You could use the same workaround with normal GIMP, just create a batch
file that sets GIMP2_DIRECTORY before invoking gimp-2.6.exe, though now
that you set the environment variable permanently, this of course isn't
necessary anymore.

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Message-ID:<jgvrk4ta0onaua6ap6t059mh37khrd1fjr@4ax.com>
Subject:

Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100


Hallo,

I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:

>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
(D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe)
attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<

What can I do?

Thank You,

G�nther K�hlewind

Message-ID:<Qpo3l.53928$XB5.25212@newsfe29.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:57:04 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:
> 
>>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe) attempted to
> install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Günther Kühlewind

I can't offer much advice other than I have it working in windows, XP 
SP2, Gimp 2.6.3 (portable version from portableapps.com).
Because of the error message I would think that it is most likely a 
localisation problem, however a couple of things to check.

Have the plugins worked on previous versions of Gimp? The pspi plugin 
tends to work only with simple .8bf plugins. Temporarily remove anything 
that is not certain of working.

Is the path to the photoshop plugin folder correctly set up. The PS 
filters settings dialog is now located at the bottom of the Filters menu.

I keep all my PS plugins in a separate folder away from the convoluted 
gimp structure and only put gimp plugins in the '....share\gimp\2.0
\plugin' folder. - separate them - might be worth a try. I have certainly 
had 'unable to load' error messages when the PS filter was too 
complicated for gimp and on occasions gimp start-up has hung when the 
filter was in the default gimp plugin folder..

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<4cpsk4tmt7u6l5j8q0hhaovo41c4fla7og@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100


Thank You for Your answer.

>> I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:
>> 
>>>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
>> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe) attempted to
>> install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<
>> 
>> What can I do?

>I can't offer much advice other than I have it working in windows, XP 
>SP2, Gimp 2.6.3 (portable version from portableapps.com).
>Because of the error message I would think that it is most likely a 
>localisation problem, however a couple of things to check.

I work with windows XP SP2 too, Gimp 2.6.3 (german version from
gimp.org).

>Have the plugins worked on previous versions of Gimp?

No.

>The pspi plugin tends to work only with simple .8bf plugins. Temporarily remove anything 
>that is not certain of working.

I did all your tipps and now I get the "pspi.exe Meldung":
"Could not open C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing"

The folder C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6 exists. There are several files
produced by gimp. There I manually created the file pspirc.new and
gave it all rights.

What am I supposed to do now?

Have a good Sunday evening,
G�nther K�hlewind


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<20qsk45u7h2mso66ggjc5337ofr1j9aak3@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:28 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100 schrieb Guenther Kuehlewind
<g.kuehlewind@arcor.de> :

>I work with windows XP SP2 too
Sorry, I have changed the system. Unfortunately I now use Vista-32.

G. K�hlewind


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<gnu3l.50701$LM6.29278@newsfe03.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:43:56 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:28 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100 schrieb Guenther Kuehlewind
> <g.kuehlewind@arcor.de> :
> 
>>I work with windows XP SP2 too
> Sorry, I have changed the system. Unfortunately I now use Vista-32.
> 
> G. Kühlewind

Beats me.

Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe" which 
looks correct to me.

Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and 
claims to be Vista compatible.

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi 
plugin path accordingly.

Might prove that pspi is working (or not)

Otherwise - ????????????

best of luck.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<qivsk4tb265dav7mnun2bts9u95o6arbhq@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :

>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe" which 
>looks correct to me.
I did it.

>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and 
>claims to be Vista compatible.
>
>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>
>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi 
>plugin path accordingly.

I did it too.

Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
can't be activatet.

The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" 
remains, when starting gimp.

Thank You for Your help.
G�nther


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<0Hv3l.10922$Ca4.9441@newsfe24.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:13:16 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :
> 
>>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe"
>>which looks correct to me.
> I did it.
> 
>>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and
>>claims to be Vista compatible.
>>
>>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>>
>>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi
>>plugin path accordingly.
> 
> I did it too.
> 
> Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
> can't be activatet.
> 
> The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
> C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" remains, when
> starting gimp.
> 
> Thank You for Your help.
> Günther

This is a long shot as I am not familiar with MS Vista.

For the last year-or-so I have been using Linux (as well as windows) and 
run a linux Gimp 2.4.7 and use the linux pspi plugin.

To get it to run in Linux, pspi expects a .gimp-2.2 folder - thats where 
it stores the pspirc file - which contains the pspi settings.

Try making an extra folder C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.2 just for the pspi 
settings. Everything else (pspi.exe) goes where you have it.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<JJI3l.58280$LM6.11429@newsfe03.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:03:37 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:13:16 +0000, rich wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:
> 
>> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :
>> 
>>>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe"
>>>which looks correct to me.
>> I did it.
>> 
>>>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and
>>>claims to be Vista compatible.
>>>
>>>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>>>
>>>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi
>>>plugin path accordingly.
>> 
>> I did it too.
>> 
>> Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
>> can't be activatet.
>> 
>> The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
>> C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" remains, when
>> starting gimp.
>> 
>> Thank You for Your help.
>> Günther
> 
> This is a long shot as I am not familiar with MS Vista.
> 
> For the last year-or-so I have been using Linux (as well as windows) and
> run a linux Gimp 2.4.7 and use the linux pspi plugin.
> 
> To get it to run in Linux, pspi expects a .gimp-2.2 folder - thats where
> it stores the pspirc file - which contains the pspi settings.
> 
> Try making an extra folder C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.2 just for the pspi
> settings. Everything else (pspi.exe) goes where you have it.

Thinking about it thats probably not going to work and as Jernej says its 
most likely a regional thing and the umlaut.

Going back to my first post, I use portable-gimp, just had a quick look 
and the pspirc file is held in a separate folder "DATA" in the portable 
directory structure.  It might be worth giving the portable version a try 
as it will bypass the \users\...\.gimp directory structure. It will not 
affect your existing installation. Put the pspi.exe in the portable-gimp 
plug-ins folder just the same as before and point the PS setup dialog to 
where the PS plugins reside.  It might prove that pspi can work or if it 
is a lost cause.
Only problem might be a German keyboard - dont know that one.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<zozmooihw9ib$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:19:27 +0100

on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe)
> attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<

Is any of the plugins you're trying to load translated? My guess would be
that the plugin name contains national characters, which confuses
GIMP/pspi.

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Message-ID:<0i9tk4ltb0diltha4135q31sc0m144igke@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:04 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:19:27 +0100 schrieb Jernej Simon?i? :

>Is any of the plugins you're trying to load translated? My guess would be
>that the plugin name contains national characters, which confuses
>GIMP/pspi.

Thank you for your mail. Your idea to find the fault may certainly be
right -- but unfortunately I chose my christian name "G�nther" as
account name. And the result is: 
"Could not open
C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing"
With another account name there is no more problem.

Thus I have to try to change my account name in the Vista System.

Thank you for your help (the same to rich too) and a merry Christmas
to you,
G�nther (with the horrible "�" in the name)

Message-ID:<ujybt40ew89n$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:59:04 +0100


on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:04 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Thus I have to try to change my account name in the Vista System.

Instead of changing the account name, just try this: right-click (My)
Computer, choose Properties, click Advanced system settings, go to Advanced
tab, click Environment Variables, and create a new User variable
GIMP2_DIRECTORY, and put something like c:\gimp-settings as value.
Afterwards, run GIMP, and it should use this directory instead of your user
profile.

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Message-ID:<rqvvk4pa21tp688l4m8dp6lloh9q0tetn7@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:05:51 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:59:04 +0100 schrieb Jernej Simon :

>Instead of changing the account name, just try this: right-click (My)
>Computer, choose Properties, click Advanced system settings, go to Advanced
>tab, click Environment Variables, and create a new User variable
>GIMP2_DIRECTORY, and put something like c:\gimp-settings as value.
>Afterwards, run GIMP, and it should use this directory instead of your user
>profile.

Thank you for this advice. It works (modificated) fine. But clicking
"advanced system settings" needs administrator rights and then I
modify the admin-environment. Therefore I modified the environment
variables in the registry.

The other advice from rich works fine too, because the portable
application avoids the critical name "g�nther" in the path.

Thank you and again I wish you a merry christmas,
G�nther


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<1989vxm5gynbm$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:40:44 +0100

on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:05:51 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Thank you for this advice. It works (modificated) fine. But clicking
> "advanced system settings" needs administrator rights and then I
> modify the admin-environment. Therefore I modified the environment
> variables in the registry.

Yeah, Microsoft didn't think certain things through with UAC - you actually
need to disable it if you want to do some things as regular user.

> The other advice from rich works fine too, because the portable
> application avoids the critical name "günther" in the path.

You could use the same workaround with normal GIMP, just create a batch
file that sets GIMP2_DIRECTORY before invoking gimp-2.6.exe, though now
that you set the environment variable permanently, this of course isn't
necessary anymore.

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Message-ID:<jgvrk4ta0onaua6ap6t059mh37khrd1fjr@4ax.com>
Subject:

Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100


Hallo,

I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:

>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
(D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe)
attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<

What can I do?

Thank You,

G�nther K�hlewind

Message-ID:<Qpo3l.53928$XB5.25212@newsfe29.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:57:04 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:
> 
>>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe) attempted to
> install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Günther Kühlewind

I can't offer much advice other than I have it working in windows, XP 
SP2, Gimp 2.6.3 (portable version from portableapps.com).
Because of the error message I would think that it is most likely a 
localisation problem, however a couple of things to check.

Have the plugins worked on previous versions of Gimp? The pspi plugin 
tends to work only with simple .8bf plugins. Temporarily remove anything 
that is not certain of working.

Is the path to the photoshop plugin folder correctly set up. The PS 
filters settings dialog is now located at the bottom of the Filters menu.

I keep all my PS plugins in a separate folder away from the convoluted 
gimp structure and only put gimp plugins in the '....share\gimp\2.0
\plugin' folder. - separate them - might be worth a try. I have certainly 
had 'unable to load' error messages when the PS filter was too 
complicated for gimp and on occasions gimp start-up has hung when the 
filter was in the default gimp plugin folder..

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<4cpsk4tmt7u6l5j8q0hhaovo41c4fla7og@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100


Thank You for Your answer.

>> I want to use photoshop-Plugins und get always the message:
>> 
>>>>Plug-In "pspi.exe"
>> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe) attempted to
>> install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<
>> 
>> What can I do?

>I can't offer much advice other than I have it working in windows, XP 
>SP2, Gimp 2.6.3 (portable version from portableapps.com).
>Because of the error message I would think that it is most likely a 
>localisation problem, however a couple of things to check.

I work with windows XP SP2 too, Gimp 2.6.3 (german version from
gimp.org).

>Have the plugins worked on previous versions of Gimp?

No.

>The pspi plugin tends to work only with simple .8bf plugins. Temporarily remove anything 
>that is not certain of working.

I did all your tipps and now I get the "pspi.exe Meldung":
"Could not open C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing"

The folder C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6 exists. There are several files
produced by gimp. There I manually created the file pspirc.new and
gave it all rights.

What am I supposed to do now?

Have a good Sunday evening,
G�nther K�hlewind


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<20qsk45u7h2mso66ggjc5337ofr1j9aak3@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:28 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100 schrieb Guenther Kuehlewind
<g.kuehlewind@arcor.de> :

>I work with windows XP SP2 too
Sorry, I have changed the system. Unfortunately I now use Vista-32.

G. K�hlewind


-- 
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Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<gnu3l.50701$LM6.29278@newsfe03.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:43:56 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:28 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0100 schrieb Guenther Kuehlewind
> <g.kuehlewind@arcor.de> :
> 
>>I work with windows XP SP2 too
> Sorry, I have changed the system. Unfortunately I now use Vista-32.
> 
> G. Kühlewind

Beats me.

Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe" which 
looks correct to me.

Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and 
claims to be Vista compatible.

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi 
plugin path accordingly.

Might prove that pspi is working (or not)

Otherwise - ????????????

best of luck.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<qivsk4tb265dav7mnun2bts9u95o6arbhq@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :

>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe" which 
>looks correct to me.
I did it.

>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and 
>claims to be Vista compatible.
>
>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>
>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi 
>plugin path accordingly.

I did it too.

Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
can't be activatet.

The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" 
remains, when starting gimp.

Thank You for Your help.
G�nther


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<0Hv3l.10922$Ca4.9441@newsfe24.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:13:16 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :
> 
>>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe"
>>which looks correct to me.
> I did it.
> 
>>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and
>>claims to be Vista compatible.
>>
>>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>>
>>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi
>>plugin path accordingly.
> 
> I did it too.
> 
> Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
> can't be activatet.
> 
> The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
> C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" remains, when
> starting gimp.
> 
> Thank You for Your help.
> Günther

This is a long shot as I am not familiar with MS Vista.

For the last year-or-so I have been using Linux (as well as windows) and 
run a linux Gimp 2.4.7 and use the linux pspi plugin.

To get it to run in Linux, pspi expects a .gimp-2.2 folder - thats where 
it stores the pspirc file - which contains the pspi settings.

Try making an extra folder C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.2 just for the pspi 
settings. Everything else (pspi.exe) goes where you have it.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<JJI3l.58280$LM6.11429@newsfe03.ams2>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:03:37 +0100

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:13:16 +0000, rich wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:41:52 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:
> 
>> Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:43:56 GMT schrieb rich :
>> 
>>>Keep pspi as "D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe"
>>>which looks correct to me.
>> I did it.
>> 
>>>Try this (free) plugin which I know works with pspi on a Win XP and
>>>claims to be Vista compatible.
>>>
>>>http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
>>>
>>>I would put it in a separate folder (as a test) and configure the pspi
>>>plugin path accordingly.
>> 
>> I did it too.
>> 
>> Now the filter "optikverve labs" is shown in the filter-menue, but it
>> can't be activatet.
>> 
>> The  pspi.exe-Message "Could not open
>> C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing" remains, when
>> starting gimp.
>> 
>> Thank You for Your help.
>> Günther
> 
> This is a long shot as I am not familiar with MS Vista.
> 
> For the last year-or-so I have been using Linux (as well as windows) and
> run a linux Gimp 2.4.7 and use the linux pspi plugin.
> 
> To get it to run in Linux, pspi expects a .gimp-2.2 folder - thats where
> it stores the pspirc file - which contains the pspi settings.
> 
> Try making an extra folder C:\Users\Günther\.gimp-2.2 just for the pspi
> settings. Everything else (pspi.exe) goes where you have it.

Thinking about it thats probably not going to work and as Jernej says its 
most likely a regional thing and the umlaut.

Going back to my first post, I use portable-gimp, just had a quick look 
and the pspirc file is held in a separate folder "DATA" in the portable 
directory structure.  It might be worth giving the portable version a try 
as it will bypass the \users\...\.gimp directory structure. It will not 
affect your existing installation. Put the pspi.exe in the portable-gimp 
plug-ins folder just the same as before and point the PS setup dialog to 
where the PS plugins reside.  It might prove that pspi can work or if it 
is a lost cause.
Only problem might be a German keyboard - dont know that one.

-- 
rich

Message-ID:<zozmooihw9ib$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:19:27 +0100

on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:31:10 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> (D:\Programme\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pspi.exe)
> attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.<<

Is any of the plugins you're trying to load translated? My guess would be
that the plugin name contains national characters, which confuses
GIMP/pspi.

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Message-ID:<0i9tk4ltb0diltha4135q31sc0m144igke@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:04 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:19:27 +0100 schrieb Jernej Simon?i? :

>Is any of the plugins you're trying to load translated? My guess would be
>that the plugin name contains national characters, which confuses
>GIMP/pspi.

Thank you for your mail. Your idea to find the fault may certainly be
right -- but unfortunately I chose my christian name "G�nther" as
account name. And the result is: 
"Could not open
C:\Users\G�nther\.gimp-2.6\pspirc.new for writing"
With another account name there is no more problem.

Thus I have to try to change my account name in the Vista System.

Thank you for your help (the same to rich too) and a merry Christmas
to you,
G�nther (with the horrible "�" in the name)

Message-ID:<ujybt40ew89n$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:59:04 +0100


on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:04 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Thus I have to try to change my account name in the Vista System.

Instead of changing the account name, just try this: right-click (My)
Computer, choose Properties, click Advanced system settings, go to Advanced
tab, click Environment Variables, and create a new User variable
GIMP2_DIRECTORY, and put something like c:\gimp-settings as value.
Afterwards, run GIMP, and it should use this directory instead of your user
profile.

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Message-ID:<rqvvk4pa21tp688l4m8dp6lloh9q0tetn7@4ax.com>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:05:51 +0100


Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:59:04 +0100 schrieb Jernej Simon :

>Instead of changing the account name, just try this: right-click (My)
>Computer, choose Properties, click Advanced system settings, go to Advanced
>tab, click Environment Variables, and create a new User variable
>GIMP2_DIRECTORY, and put something like c:\gimp-settings as value.
>Afterwards, run GIMP, and it should use this directory instead of your user
>profile.

Thank you for this advice. It works (modificated) fine. But clicking
"advanced system settings" needs administrator rights and then I
modify the admin-environment. Therefore I modified the environment
variables in the registry.

The other advice from rich works fine too, because the portable
application avoids the critical name "g�nther" in the path.

Thank you and again I wish you a merry christmas,
G�nther


-- 
Guenther Kuehlewind
Schablweg 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany

Message-ID:<1989vxm5gynbm$.dlg@deepthought.ena.si>
Subject:

Re: Gimp 2.6.3: Plug-In "pspi.exe" ... attempted to install a procedure with invalid UTF-8 strings.

Date:Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:40:44 +0100

on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:05:51 +0100, Guenther Kuehlewind wrote:

> Thank you for this advice. It works (modificated) fine. But clicking
> "advanced system settings" needs administrator rights and then I
> modify the admin-environment. Therefore I modified the environment
> variables in the registry.

Yeah, Microsoft didn't think certain things through with UAC - you actually
need to disable it if you want to do some things as regular user.

> The other advice from rich works fine too, because the portable
> application avoids the critical name "günther" in the path.

You could use the same workaround with normal GIMP, just create a batch
file that sets GIMP2_DIRECTORY before invoking gimp-2.6.exe, though now
that you set the environment variable permanently, this of course isn't
necessary anymore.

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