Hi Franz,

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:12:34PM +0200, Franz Haeuslschmid wrote:

Dear developers of Inkscape,

I have made one observation, that could help to improve Inkscape. I noticed that EPS files that are output by the `Save as' dialog start with

,---- | %!PS-Adobe-3.0 `----

However, the documentation for GSview (for instance) states, that EPS files start with

,---- | %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 `----

and that is one of several prerequisites for an usable EPS. I'm far from being an expert on EPS, however inserting `EPSF-3.0' manually did for me the trick to make GSview treat the exported EPS files as real EPS. I use Inkscape (Inkscape0505310200.zip) on a MS-Windows platform.

Franz.

Yes, you are right, eps-Files should tell the PS-interpreter that they are eps files. The problem we have is that inkscape uses its printing interface for eps-export. That is, it doen't sitinguish between these two kinds of PostScript. This was the cuse of some other irritations in the past, like landscape layouted drawings were imported rotated by 90⁰ when imported by other applications because they were actually formatted for printing. There is a workaround for this in inkscape now, but as you remarked, no really solution yet.

I wanted to take care of this, since I had the impression it should not be too difficult to implement, but lacked time and my motivation was not that high since there seemed to be no need for that and I myself didn't use eps-output for quite a long time.

With best regards,

Wolfi