On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 10:48 +0200, Arcadie M. Cracan wrote:
I just tried, and for me EPS and PS both work fine, with good text alignment. (only the centred alignment looks a bit off)
I think I found the source of my problem:
** (inkscape:6043): WARNING **: EPS cannot have its bounding box extend beyond its content, so if your drawing is smaller than the page, --export-area-page will clip it to drawing.
This is a "feature" of the Cairo library that is used for EPS export. We would need to convince the Cairo developers to add an option to set the bounding box larger than the drawing size. While they adhere to the letter of the standard, in practice it is much more useful (and normal in the software I have used) to be able to set the bounding box freely.
Even when I export with the "-D" option the results are different for pdf and eps. I attach an example of an SVG drawing that produces different results (also attached).
Maybe a bug.
How can this be fixed (aside from adding an invisible rectangle that would enclose the entire drawing)?
Workarounds for EPS export include exporting to PS then converting to EPS (simply changing the file extension from .ps to .eps may work) or editing the BoundingBox line in the EPS file.
Tav