On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Daniel wrote:
Furthermore, when I export EPS from Inkscape (both 0.39 and 0.40), they appear (at least according to the "file" utility, to be regular postscript, rather than encapsulated postscript). I've tentatively tracked this down to be the lack of the full first-line of "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0" and instead only having "%!PS-Adobe-3.0". Ghostscript utilities, such as eps2eps, produce the full line, while inkscape produces the shorter version. Changing the latter to the former seemed to convince the Linux "file" utility that the file was now EPS. Any ideas on what's the right thing to do?
Actually EPS places some rather detailed and stringent requirements on the organization and formatting of the postscript file, as well as mandating certain specially formatted comments describing the document layout.
The EPSF declaration is just a promise that those requirements have been observed.
If someone would like to go in and rework our postscript output to meet the EPS specification, that would be helpful. For the most part I suspect we already do, except we need the special comments.
-mental