Hi
Is there any good tool to translate EPS images to SVG?
Cheers
Hi
one route is to get pstoedit and the svg shareware plug-in. ( http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit ) This alows you to run
pstoedit -f svg input.eps output.svf
on the command line
Alberto Simões wrote:
Hi
Is there any good tool to translate EPS images to SVG?
Cheers
IMHO the best way is to use ps2pdf from Ghostscript (or Adobe Distiller, or makepdf) to get PDF, then load the PDF into the development version of Inkscape and save as SVG.
Hmms... devel version of inkscape loads PDF files? That's nice. I just need to wait for a Mac OS release :)
On 9/16/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
IMHO the best way is to use ps2pdf from Ghostscript (or Adobe Distiller, or makepdf) to get PDF, then load the PDF into the development version of Inkscape and save as SVG.
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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
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 :(
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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/
Heyas
On 9/16/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
alongside mine, though. It is really not that difficult you need:
- a PPC mac (obviously) with OS X Tiger
Weee. I have one.
- Apple developer tools, downloadable from Apple. All the
documentation of frameworks need to be installed (they are huge), only the compilers. ca. 300MB
I think I have it all.
- 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)
I still use fink. Is it enough, or does MacPorts have anything different?
Do you think you could help with the PPC builds? It would be great.
Probably :) Anyway, I might buy an intel mac in a few months, but until there, if I can at least prepare one snapshot I'll be happy to make it available.
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.
Thanks, I'll try that as well :D
Cheers.
On 2007-September-17 , at 10:45 , Alberto Simões wrote:
- Apple developer tools, downloadable from Apple. All the
documentation of frameworks need to be installed (they are huge), only the compilers. ca. 300MB
I think I have it all.
- 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)
I still use fink. Is it enough, or does MacPorts have anything different?
MacPorts provides newer versions of the packages that are in Fink. Inkscape requires these new versions (for GTK in particular) so it was mandatory to have MacPorts. However it has been since I last looked at the library versions in Fink. Which gtk and gtkmm versions does Fink unstable have? NB: in addition I have a better experience with MacPorts than with Fink unstable so I never looked back since I switched. Fink is nice when you can use the fast binary install but since Inkscape requires most versions from unstable, you're probably better off with a robust source based solution such as MacPorts.
Do you think you could help with the PPC builds? It would be great.
Probably :) Anyway, I might buy an intel mac in a few months, but until there, if I can at least prepare one snapshot I'll be happy to make it available.
that would be great! The Wiki page is quite up to date now so you should be able to get inkscape to compile following the instructions there: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX Please let me know if anything goes wrong, it will be a good occasion to check that the instructions are correct (you can also open up an account on Inkscape wiki and add you comments on the page along the process, so that they don't get lost)
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On 2007-September-17 , at 00:50 , jiho wrote:
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 :(
[...] 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.
This is not true anymore, the latest Intel build has it. The necessary steps to get PDF import were: - to change the portfile to get 0.6 instead of 0.5.4, sudo port edit poppler and change: version 0.6 and checksums md5 96883867572aa1e55e979ec75369c562 - to install this one: sudo port deactivate poppler sudo port install poppler - to copy CaidoOutputDev.h from poppler's source to /opt/local/ include/poppler (this is a problem with poppler which has been discussed in other threads already) Now Inkscape opens plenty of PDFs just fine, and this comprises PDFs produces by Quartz (i.e. by any mac application). This is a really great, and particularly on OS X, since PDF is so central on this system.
The only noticeable deficiency so far is that, very often, fonts appear to be lost. But most of the time, they are properly written in the SVG but are not displayed due to the Inkscape/Pango deficiencies in the font support area, particularly when it comes to Mac fonts. I really hope Gail's work will help on this! Anyway, thanks for the PDF import, it's great and I'll patiently wait for the font issues to get solved.
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
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