BandiPat
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.