John R. Culleton schrieb:
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?
short question long answer ...
-PS/EPS is a whole programming language with loops sub-routines etc. -this makes it rather complex to generate a good converting result -all known importers (pstoedit) that inkscape uses are based on ghostscript that is known to be an good importer -that needs ghostscript installed on your system as this is not a part of inkscape -so there is no real need to invent the wheel a second time
btw there is a postscript rendering library called hieryglyph http://hieroglyph.freedesktop.org/wiki/ . Maybe this one can replace the usage of ghostscript one day
HTH,
Adib.