Hello Tav,
thanks for your explanations! Good to hear that there seems to be a way to do what I'd like to do... even though I haven't tried it yet. ;-)
Yes, psfrag works with text labels inserted by Inskcape. And yes, importing EPS into Inkscape may convert the text labels to paths...
Is there some reason why this text-to-path conversion can be disabled upon export of EPS, but not when loading EPS? Both cases seem equally important to me.
losing their ability to be used as tags for psfrag. This depends on which version of Inkscape you are using and where you got it from.
Well, I (unsuccessfully) tried 0.41, 0.44.1, and 0.45.1. Would the SVN version be different in this respect?
The current SVN version uses the program "pstoedit" to convert EPS into svg. The exact command is `pstoedit -f plot-svg`. This command does not convert the text to paths (although the SVG file it produces looks a bit strange).
To use the SVN version, replace the contents of: share/inkscape/extensions/eps_input.inx with
You mean to *only* patch this file, in order to get the SVN behaviour? OK, I'll try (with 0.44.1, which is the version included in Debian etch).
Another way to get a decent svg file for input into Inkscape is to use the chain:
pstoedit -f sk test_original.eps test_original.sk skconvert test_original.sk test_sk.svg
This seems to produce a bit better svg, again with the text not converted to paths.
OK, I'll try this as well...
That you could manually replace the text (paths) imported by Inkscape by text objects (real text). Obviously one of the above methods would be better.
Not really an option considering the number of figures that I'm dealing with.
Thanks a lot, your help is very much appreciated! I'll let you know if it worked.
Greetings, David