PS and EPS input with pstoedit
Hi everybody,
There were several discussions in the past about dropping the requirement for sketch in PS and EPS input. pstoedit can be used instead, with its plot-svg backend (which is free, don't confuse it with the non-free "svg" backend). I produced a patch to do this, which waited in the tracker for a time. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1629798&group_id=93438
I just committed it today (r15046) to see what happens. Apparently it has been used in Fedora's Inkscape for a while so it should be quite safe. However it still causes warning messages to appear and some strange zooming behavior depending on the source of the EPS/PS file. I would appreciate feedback and advise on this.
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
jiho wrote:
Hi everybody,
There were several discussions in the past about dropping the requirement for sketch in PS and EPS input. pstoedit can be used instead, with its plot-svg backend (which is free, don't confuse it with the non-free "svg" backend). I produced a patch to do this, which waited in the tracker for a time. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1629798&group_id=93438
I just committed it today (r15046) to see what happens. Apparently it has been used in Fedora's Inkscape for a while so it should be quite safe. However it still causes warning messages to appear and some strange zooming behavior depending on the source of the EPS/PS file. I would appreciate feedback and advise on this.
We solve the warning message problem in Fedora by patching pstoedit (patch attached).
-denis
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