[Clug-tech] converting EPS to a usable format

[Kin Wong]

I have access to illustrator if all that is needed is a conversion.  I have used Coreldraw in the past but will need to do a little searching to find my disks.

You might also consider imagemagick to go from eps to ai or a dtp like scribus but will likely need to cut and paste the image (good on reading a file but output is weak).

Have you looked at the file with a bit editor, frequently the file contains evidence of its source.

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From: Gustin Johnson
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Subject: [Clug-tech] converting EPS to a usable format

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The significant other received an PES document (encapsulated postscript)
that she would like to edit.  It is a business card template that looks
like it was created by Adobe Illustrator.  At the very least the zip
file was created on a Mac (default vista uncompress did not like the
.zip, hooray for 7zip and FLOSS).

The ideal situation would be to convert this to an SVG that I/we can
edit.  The ideal solution would be FLOSS though a commercial product may
be considered (at least to do the conversion, FLOSS after that)

Tools that I have used thus far (on my Linux machine).
Inkscape -- does not like the eps file
epstools -- errors when converting
sk1/uniconv -- does not open, errors when converting
GIMP -- can perfectly render (view) the file, but unable to edit, unable
to export to an SVG
Xara -- does not import

Any help would be appreciated.
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