Re: [Inkscape-user] Why can't Inkscape import eps?

On 2007-August-20 , at 19:11 , John R. Culleton wrote:

EPS is AFAIK a vector format. svg is a vector format. So why can't Inkscape import it? Is there a technical problem in creating an import filter?

Inkscape can import it... sort of. Inkscape (on Linux and OS X at least, don't know the status on Windows) can call pstoedit which converts the EPS to SVG for Inkscape to edit. There are a few glitches associated with editing files after the conversion but most are sorted by simply copy pasting the output of pstoedit into a new Inkscape instance. Pstoedit does not do a perfect job at converting EPS files but it is usually pretty good.

JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/