[Clug-tech] converting EPS to a usable format

[Gustin Johnson]

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Kin Wong wrote:
> 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.
> 
I may take you up on this offer.

> 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).

Imagemagic does not like vector based graphics (according to the error I
got).

> Have you looked at the file with a bit editor, frequently the file
> contains evidence of its source.
> 
Of course I did, the file was created by Adobe Illustrator 8.  eps is a
vector format so it is essentially a text file.  I even know who it is
registered to (both the person's name and his company).


> ------Original Message------ From: Gustin Johnson Sender:
> clug-tech-bounces at clug.ca To: CLUG Tech ReplyTo: CLUG Tech Sent: Sep
> 29, 2008 01:28 Subject: [Clug-tech] converting EPS to a usable format
> 
> 
> 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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