I use Inkscape daily (on a Ubuntu 12.04 PC) to produce vector art, and I recently had to send one art as eps (to be imported by corel or adobe illustrator).

So I first removed every filter effect (I know it causes problems) and ungrouped all vector in the art, then saved it as eps. So far, so good.

Then I tried to import it back to Inkscape. It imported fine, but it didn't ungroup. I pressed Ctrl + u several times, and even managed to ungroup a part of it, but most of it was impossible to ungroup. And it didn't open in other graphic editors (corel, etc.).

If anyone want to see the exported file, its on my Ubuntu One and you can download it here:

http://ubuntuone.com/7gu8ToQeZhlOvmCjIrxLZe

Thank you all.

Ok, I just found out it's a problem with the EPS version Inkscape uses to save the files. If I save a file as EPS that has no transparency or gradients, it works perfectly.

But Inkscape only saves as EPS versions 2 or 3, I guess. EPS version 8 accepts gradients fine (for what I've read yesterday) and version 10 accepts transparency. The blur effect isn't accepted in any version.

If that's the case, does anyone know of an Inkscape extension who can convert SVG to EPS 8 or 10? And if that doesn't exist, does anyone know of an online tool (or an offline linux program) who could do that kind of conversion?

did you save your original work in .SVG format? I learnt hard way to ungroup things before saving a file as .EPS but still made sure to save it in SVG as during the save process to EPS it gave me a message about data loss or conversion issues.

Gjosh, I'm ungrouping all objects in SVG and turning them to paths too before saving them as EPS.

But here's what I found out last night (making a test between a PC with Inkscape and one running illustrator):

- If I save the file as Inkscape SVG and then open it in illustrator, it suffers data loss/distortions;

- If I save it as EPS, it opens perfectly in illustrator but I can't ungroup it;

- If I save the file as Plain SVG it opens perfectly in illustrator and ungroups without any errors;

- corel draw is, as always, useless in any cases.

But I'm still loking for a form to save as EPS from Inkscape, in a way that (without filers and effects, except for gradients and transparency, which are still vectors, not rester or bitmaps) may work without another plataform software.

Thanks for answering me.

Here's what I found to work the best for me (there are alternative methods of course).
I export the svg (gradients seem to come out ok, but not filters), as a png. Then I open the png in GIMP, GIMP lets me save it as an EPS file, and viola, done. Now, neither GIMP nor Inkscape will let you view the EPS (well, the file does show as an EPS upon the original transfter, but not after that), so I also downloaded the free pgm Ghostscript writer/viewer, and use the viewer if I want to see the file.
I understand that some people just save the Inkscape file as an EPS directly from Inkscape, then open in GIMP to transfer, whatever works for ya, for some reason, I've found the gradients look better transferring from the png than eps, but maybe that's just me thinking it, vs reality).
I don't know of any way to not use another platform software.... wish there were, it's a pain to go through so many steps. but, it's all using open source software, so no complaints here.

Thanks for answering me, Flamingolady.

I'm trying it right now. 8)