Hi Dirk, I am sending this mail to the sodipodi and inkscape lists as I think the people there can both better reply than me and are also the people most able to look at the import code you are pointing to.
I hope to see this code or a derrative of it enter sodipodi or inkscape giving us EPS/Postscript import as it is something I really miss.
Christian
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:38, Dirk Sch��nberger wrote:
Hi Dirk, Well our problem is that Sodipodi doesn't currently support importing EPS images. I am also a bit worried about copyright issues with your flags since you say they come from a variety of sources.
But thanks for the offer :)
Christian
No problem about the images.
Do you have a import framework at hand for Sodipodi? I have done some data conversion work for Postscript related file formats, namely Adobe Illustrator (AI). Version 1 is implemented in C++, you can find it the KDE CVS, module koffice/import/karbon/ai (or somesuch) Combined with ghostscript's ps2ai filter it should be possible to do importing generic EPS files.
Version 2 is currently only a prototype implemented in Ruby. It provides a SAX like API to Adobe Illustrator files, which I think makes using the filter in applications easier. The filter is again in KDE CVS, module kdenonbeta/opal/import/ai (or somesuch).
Currently I have no target format besides XML where I can see the results of my importer, so I kind of stopped working on it.
Regards Dirk