how to open and modify eps with gimp I use GIMP a lot for my work, especially for modifying figures in EPS format to put in my latex documents. However I don't know how to configure GIMP to open EPS files. In fact if I try to open an EPS it says that the format is not recognizable. On the contrary under linux that is automatic? How it can be possible?

I'm using Mountain Lion with GIMP 2.

Appreciate any help, thanks.
If I understand this bug report (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689657) correctly, you can check if your version of Gimp supports ps and eps (it may not, even if you have ghostscript) by doing the following:

Open Gimp.
In the menu, click help, and then procedure browser.
In the procedure browser search for 'file-ps-load'. If it's not listed, Gimp won't open ps or eps files.

My version of Gimp doesn't have this. But I haven't tried downloading the current version, maybe the current version has this enabled.

It's not too hard these days to set up Linux in VirtualBox. If you have no other alternatives available and don't want to buy Windows or another computer, you can use Gimp on Linux (probably Ubuntu) in VirtualBox.