Hello Tav,
thanks for your reply!
I realize the importance of the "export text as paths" checkbox, and while both settings produce different EPS files, none contains the psfrag labels. I tried with inkscape 0.44.1, 0.45.1, and 0.41 (on Debian).
I found several reports on the web that the combination of EPS and inkscape and psfrag works perfectly well. Please help, what am I doing wrong?!
The problem is at the importing stage. The text is being converted to paths (look at the text with the XML editor dialog). psfrag does work well with Inkscape text objects. See the tip in the .tex section of: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Export.html#File-Export-Ot...
Hmm, just to make sure I understand you correctly: psfrag works well with text labels which are inserted by inkscape, but any labels already existing in the original EPS file are inevitably destroyed?? I hope that's not right, as in this case I'd have to look for an entirely different solution.
You could replace the text as paths with text as text.
Uhm, what do you mean by this?
Many greetings, David