Dear all,

I have been having a lot of problems while trying to transform a source file which I have in .eps format - and be able to edit it in Inkscape.
Could you share the most convenient way to do this?

First of all Inkscape is showing problems with opening/reading the .eps file.

Thanks in advance,
Bernard

Bernard wrote:First of all Inkscape is showing problems with opening/reading the .eps file.

What kind of problems? Which Inkscape version do you use (0.46 or 0.47pre)?

For EPS import Inkscape depends on helper applications:

• Inkscape 0.46: pstoedit
• Inkscape 0.47pre: ps2pdf (part of Ghostscript)

inkscape won't open an EPS file, but there's a way around it with scribus, read this link. Hope this helps...

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-open-EPS ... -Edit-them

yeah most people want to learn how to convert .svg to .eps not the other way around!

For EPS import Inkscape depends on helper applications:
Inkscape 0.46: pstoedit
Inkscape 0.47pre: ps2pdf (part of Ghostscript)

just install ghostscript and pstoedit and add to the System path the ghostscipt location and you can open .EPS files with no problem. Assuming you are using Windows.

Thank you capnhud for your explanation. I'm having trouble opening eps files also. I'm a real newbie, so could you go into further detail about "adding to system path the ghostscript location". How does one do that? I'm using inkscape 0.47.
Thanks!

I can find info on setting the path in Windows XP, but I'm using Windows 7. Haven't quite kicked the microsoft habit yet.

Julie wrote:Thank you capnhud for your explanation. I'm having trouble opening eps files also. I'm a real newbie, so could you go into further detail about "adding to system path the ghostscript location". How does one do that? I'm using inkscape 0.47.
Thanks!

Me again.
Here's what I have tried...
I can get into my "path" variable in my system environmental variables. What do I enter for ghostscript? Do I have to include the path all the way to \bin\?

I also tried this (but it didn't work)
I opened gs and got the gs prompt
I entered SET GHOSTSCRIPT PATH C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.70\gs\bin
gs gave me the error /undefined in set

Thanks to anyone who can help this noob!

Julie wrote:I can find info on setting the path in Windows XP, but I'm using Windows 7. Haven't quite kicked the microsoft habit yet.

Julie wrote:Thank you capnhud for your explanation. I'm having trouble opening eps files also. I'm a real newbie, so could you go into further detail about "adding to system path the ghostscript location". How does one do that? I'm using inkscape 0.47.
Thanks!

I've never used Windows 7, but setting the path seems to work much the same as in Windows XP.

Here's a page on how to edit environment variables in Windows 7: http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3595.html. Follow the first 4 steps in those instructions, then find the Path variable in the list, and edit it. Keep whatever is currently in the Path variable, but add a semicolon to the end, followed by the path of your Ghostscript installation (including the bin). Then click OK, OK, OK.

Note that the edit box provided is usually way too small to see the whole of the Path variable, so make sure you really are at the end (e.g., press the End key) before adding the semicolon, otherwise you may mess up the existing Path.