On 2007-September-16 , at 21:56 , Alberto Simões wrote:
On 9/16/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
On 9/16/07, Alberto Simões <hashashin@...155...> wrote:
Hmms... devel version of inkscape loads PDF files? That's nice. I just need to wait for a Mac OS release :)
you can get a snapshot here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap
Unfortunately I have a PPC and that snapshot has about... 4 months :(
Yes sorry about that. I did not have enough energy and time to produce universal development builds... and since I had to switch to an Intel mac about four months ago (my iBook fried, grrrr), the PPC snapshots are that old. It would be really nice if someone with a PPC machine could produce some development builds and upload them alongside mine, though. It is really not that difficult you need: - a PPC mac (obviously) with OS X Tiger - Apple developer tools, downloadable from Apple. All the documentation of frameworks need to be installed (they are huge), only the compilers. ca. 300MB - MacPorts and some ports (i.e. libraries) there (=one command line in the Terminal). ca. 500MB and some time (but only once, or once in a while, for upgrades) - Inkscape source and then updating and compiling newer revisions of Inkscape is just a matter of typing: ./osx-build.sh all in a Terminal and waiting about 30 minutes. Couldn't be much easier, could it? For PDF import there's an extra step though. This functionality requires poppler, a library external to Inkscape, and specifically, it requires a version of poppler newer than the one in MacPorts. Therefore, this newer version must be compiled by hand and added to Inkscape search path. It is probably not that hard, but once again, there's simply not enough time in the day and I haven't done it yet. So even the Intel builds don't have the new PDF import currently.
Do you think you could help with the PPC builds? It would be great.
NB: as for your problem, I have been using pstoedit with the plot-svg backend (free) successfully for 3 years. If your eps is not too complex pstoedit does quite a good job. There only thing that are likely to be lost in translation are the fonts. You can get pstoedit via MacPorts, it installs the plot-svg backend automatically (and if you instal it via MacPorts, Inkscape should be able to take advantage of it and open EPS directly, calling pstoedit in the process to get the SVG. The conversion can result in some strange behavior when zooming or adding new objects, but copy-pasting the SVG in a new Inkscape documents solves all the issues.)
I hope that helps. Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/