Hi,
For a reason I may not yet announce I need our logo in EPS file format. Unfortunately Inkscape still has no idea how to flatten transparencies when saving to PS/EPS. Before I go tweaking the SVG to get rid of them, I'd like to find out if somebody did this job before, so that some time could be spared.
Thanks in advance, whatever would come out of this :)
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Dumb question: where is the svg file? :D I found one in my installation but it's the old one. The last one received some tweaks from someone I don't remember. It had a blue-ish shade at one of the sides. The weird thing is that UI is sporting the two versions: windows use the new one while the About menu entry shows the old one.
I'll try to export it (the "old" one) to PDF and flatten the transparencies with Acrobat Pro or Illustrator. I don't know if there are tools in Linux for this.
Regards.
2010/9/21 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...>:
Hi,
For a reason I may not yet announce I need our logo in EPS file format. Unfortunately Inkscape still has no idea how to flatten transparencies when saving to PS/EPS. Before I go tweaking the SVG to get rid of them, I'd like to find out if somebody did this job before, so that some time could be spared.
Thanks in advance, whatever would come out of this :)
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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On 9/21/10, Pajarico wrote:
Dumb question: where is the svg file? :D
share/icons/inkscape.svg?
I'll try to export it (the "old" one) to PDF and flatten the transparencies with Acrobat Pro or Illustrator. I don't know if there are tools in Linux for this.
It's somewhat ironic that we need proprietary tools for that :)
Thank you for your willingness to help.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
I'll try to export it (the "old" one) to PDF and flatten the transparencies with Acrobat Pro or Illustrator. I don't know if there are tools in Linux for this.
It's somewhat ironic that we need proprietary tools for that :)
I gave this a shot earlier with no luck. I tried several open approaches then finally gave in and opened it in AI CS3 but that mangled it pretty thoroughly as well.
Inkscape->print to file as pdf or ps = rasterized PS or mangled PDF Inkscape->save as PDF, pdf2ps = rasterized PS Import SVG to Openoffice Draw = mangled Import various formats to Scribus = mangled Open in AI CS3 (both Inkscape SVG and Inkscape PDF) = mangled
All of the 'mangled' results were at least partially vector, but in all cases there were problems with transparency and/or shadows.
I also tried printing to file from a handful of other programs in Ubuntu, as well as to a ghostscript PDF printer in XP from a few programs. Out of Inkscape, Firefox and Chrome, only Chrome appears to have sent vector information but even in that case it came out pretty borked ;)
I also tried an online svg->pdf converter a la batik, but it just gave me back a blank page.
I meant to send this earlier, but my notes were spotty and I was called on to do some "real work" ;)
Chris
Perhaps not useful for exporting to EPS but for those who want easily flatten transparency of complex objects including shadows or other effects here are two simple filters : "Opaque background" adds a white opaque background and "Opaque background color" is the same + one flood primitive which allows to color the background of the filter area.
An useful tip : group already filtered objects before applying these filters (that's not necessary for unfiltered semi-transparent bitmaps).
ivan
________________________________ De : Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> À : inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé le : Mar 21 septembre 2010, 21h 22min 53s Objet : Re: [Inkscape-devel] our logo in EPS
On 9/21/10, Pajarico wrote:
Dumb question: where is the svg file? :D
share/icons/inkscape.svg?
I'll try to export it (the "old" one) to PDF and flatten the transparencies with Acrobat Pro or Illustrator. I don't know if there are tools in Linux for this.
It's somewhat ironic that we need proprietary tools for that :)
Thank you for your willingness to help.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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Much simpler versions of the same kind of filters renamed "Fill background" (for the colorizable one) and "Flatten transparency" for the white one.
ivan
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Perhaps not useful for exporting to EPS but for those who want easily flatten transparency of complex objects including shadows or other effects here are two simple filters : "Opaque background" adds a white opaque background and "Opaque background color" is the same + one flood primitive which allows to color the background of the filter area.
An useful tip : group already filtered objects before applying these filters (that's not necessary for unfiltered semi-transparent bitmaps).
ivan
________________________________ De : Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> À : inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé le : Mar 21 septembre 2010, 21h 22min 53s Objet : Re: [Inkscape-devel] our logo in EPS
On 9/21/10, Pajarico wrote:
Dumb question: where is the svg file? :D
share/icons/inkscape.svg?
I'll try to export it (the "old" one) to PDF and flatten the transparencies with Acrobat Pro or Illustrator. I don't know if there are tools in Linux for this.
It's somewhat ironic that we need proprietary tools for that :)
Thank you for your willingness to help.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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On Tuesday 21 September 2010 15:10:24 Pajarico wrote:
Dumb question: where is the svg file? :D I found one in my installation but it's the old one. The last one received some tweaks from someone I don't remember. It had a blue-ish shade at one of the sides. The weird thing is that UI is sporting the two versions: windows use the new one while the About menu entry shows the old one.
I'll try to export it (the "old" one) to PDF and flatten the transparencies with Acrobat Pro or Illustrator. I don't know if there are tools in Linux for this.
Regards.
2010/9/21 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...>:
Hi,
For a reason I may not yet announce I need our logo in EPS file format. Unfortunately Inkscape still has no idea how to flatten transparencies when saving to PS/EPS. Before I go tweaking the SVG to get rid of them, I'd like to find out if somebody did this job before, so that some time could be spared.
Thanks in advance, whatever would come out of this :)
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
1. Produce a pdf of the logo. 2. Load into free Acrobat Reader. 3. Print to file creating a .PS file. 4. run ps2pdf.
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