Hi,

This message was sent previously but bounced because the attachments were to big, and then apparently got lost. Apologies in case this gets double-posted.

To the issue: if I understand it correctly, the eps and pdf export was switched in the transition from version 0.46 to 0.47. In my experience, the new eps export doesn't work well, producing larger files and also converting some vector elements to raster in an unpredictable way. The new pdf export seems to produce less rasterization but also produces large files that can take a very long time to render in a pdf viewer.

I suppose there was a reason for this transition, maybe gradients, transparency and such. However, where these features are not required, the old export routines produce more compact output and avoid wanton rasterization. Also, the old-style eps files can be used with LaTeX' psfrag mechanism, whereas the new-style ones cannot.

So, my question is, could we please have the old eps export back - as an additional option, or maybe as a user-installable extension?

Thanks for consideration, best, Michael

PS Example files produced from the same svg file and exported with versions 0.46 and 0.47, respectively, are not attached (the 0.47 ones are too big and blow the message size limit) but can be viewed at http://watcut.uwaterloo.ca/_files/