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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: A B Joshi` on March 25, 2016, 09:41:28 AM
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Hello All,
Just a new entrant to the InkScape Community. I found Inkscape easy to use.
I want to insert an image that I have saved as .eps in Inkscape in an .xlsx file. When I insert the file it comes with lot of garbage.
Can anybody help me with this . Tried a few things found on the internet but didn't work.
Thanks in advance !!
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Welcome aboard!
Saving in .eps I would not recommend in general, it's more of a printer's format, like a "dumb pdf". Instead, would try saving as wmf then importing it in excel.
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So you made the EPS file using Inkscape, and you want to import that into Excel? It could be that you need support from Excel. Otherwise, is there any other format that you could use? SVG, PDF, PNG? Maybe those would be imported better?
Out of curiosity, can you describe what "garbage" is? Is it extra graphics that you didn't see in the EPS file? Or is it some kind of code?
What things did you already try?
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@brynn
Yes. I drew it in inkscape & saved as .eps.
I need it in .eps only. Other formats are not allowed by my end user.
I tried putting a white rectangle as a background layer before doing "save as". Tried Postscript Level 2 &3 Both. Tried "raterize filter effects" with different DPI from 90 to 300. But no use.
Garbage means - There are horizontal white lines and other broken lines that are coming.
And also forgot to mention - this image needs to be use in Indesign also. So end user needs strictly in .eps.
Would appreciate support in this issue !!
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There are some special instructions (https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#How_to_open_EPS_files_in_Windows) to be able to open EPS files on windows, but that should not prevent you from saving as EPS. I've even saved as EPS without having Ghostscirpt installed. But I can't open it to look at it.
Are you able to view the EPS file, to determine that it looks like you want, before you import to EXcel? Have you saved an SVG version? I don't know if it will help, but maybe if we could see the SVG version, it might give us a clue.
For example, does that "garbage" dispaly problem only affect certain parts of the drawing? Or does it affect everything. I saw some bug reports involving pattern fills and gradients, but without being able to ssee the image, it's hard to guess.
Can you post an SVG version for us?
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When the phrase "end user" was mentioned, I think it's pretty obvious that op can't share the work.
Found an online converter that claim it can do the job: http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-eps.
But there of course you doesn't have control on the data (if design is not to be seen for other that your customer).
Some info about the image format to be read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript
Seems to be possible to use GhostPDL to convert SVG into EPS, according to this forum thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9793120/how-to-covert-svg-to-eps-in-ghostscript
Please give feedback if you succeed :nod: