Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> How do you import .eps files?  I've tried to import tiger.eps but it
>> failed (inkscape-0.39-3 on SUSE 9.2).
>
> My bad on Inkscape!  I just learned myself that it does indeed allow you 
> to save out as .eps, but won't load what it saves!  :o)
>
> I've been trying to find out from the developers if they plan to be able 
> to load .eps at sometime, but have not gotten an answer yet.

It's not easy to write a program which understands EPS so don't expect
it will be done soon.  They can use an already existing tool which
converts EPS to something that is easier to interpret but in this case
the result will be comparable to pstoedit's output.

>  Hopefully they will at some point, but for now, I guess it's Gimp
> to the rescue!

As I said, you can convert .eps into .fig which can be edited in the
vector editor xfig.  Try for instance

pstoedit -f "fig" tiger.eps tiger.fig
xfig tiger.fig &

If you click on the Move or Edit icon in Xfig then you'll see hundreds
of objects which can be edited.

--
A.M.