I deperately want to use Inkscape.
I am making a scientific poster, which in practice means collecting a bunch of plot and images I've made over the past few months and putting them together with a little text and perhaps a few line drawings into a nice looking 3ft x 4ft document that I will print on a large format printer. These plots and images tend to be EPS files but they can be rather diverse.
I basically haven't gotten Inkscape to usefully import an EPS file. For larger, more complex ones, it responds with a dialog box saying it couldn't be converted. Even smaller, simpler ones don't seem to have the correct bounding box (they're clipped).
I would in fact be just as happy if Inkscape _didn't_ convert the EPS files to its native format. I'm eventually going to export the whole thing to Postscript (or at least I have in the past) anyway, so if I can just place boxes where I want the plots and then have them show up in the Postscript output, that'd be great.
As it stands, the only program I can find that seems to do what I want is... Xfig.
So I guess I'm asking asking: 0) Am I crazy for trying to do what I'm trying to do? Ie, is there a much better approach that I'm not seeing? 1) General tips for dealing with importing EPS files and arranging them into larger documents? Should I convert them to something else first? I'd like to avoid rasterizing them. 2) Any links to battle-hardened tools for converting between vector file formats?
Thanks for any guidance, Greg