[Clug-tech] converting EPS to a usable format

[Mark Carlson]

Depending on your eps file, this may work...
http://www.eprg.org/research/SVG/ps2svg/

-Mark C.

On 9/29/08, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
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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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