Re: [Inkscape-user] converting svg to eps via commandline

Up spake Steffen Glückselig:

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.ps.eps: ps2eps -l -f $< || ps2epsi $< $@

Would you, shortly, elaborate on that cryptic line?

This is a 'suffix rule', defining the conversion from .ps to .eps.

$< expands to the input (.ps) file. $@ expands to the output (.eps) file.

The rule first tries ps2eps. If that doesn't work (e.g. if ps2eps isn't installed), it tries ps2epsi.

Under Debian, ps2epsi is provided by gs-common (i.e. ghostscript). I don't have ps2eps installed anymore, so I'm not sure what provides it.