Is there any way to be friends/partners with Adobe? It's REALLY frustrating to have to pretty much start all over again when applying gradients and opacities the Abobe way! I love the intuitiveness of Inkscape's gradient and opacity tools verses the technical insanity in Adobe! However, a lot of my clients and printers my clients go with of course use Adobe Illustrator as their industry standard and need the files in AI or EPS but the effects in Inkscape don't transfer to Illustrator and I have to completely recreate them ARRRGH!! Is there a better way around this? A Plugin perhaps!?

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I've heard some people say that they use GIMP to produce the EPS. That is, an image drawn in Inkscape, and saved as Inkscape SVG, then opened in GIMP and saved as EPS. I don't know if that allows the effects to be converted or not. But GIMP is free and open source, and would be simple to try it. I would experiment myself, but don't have the proper software to view EPS files.

If any collaboration or cooperation between the 2 organizations/communities were to happen, I doubt if it would originate on the Adobe side. In fact, I would be surprised if Adobe (license) would allow it, even if work were only done from the Inkscape side.

However, I always like to remind folks that Inkscape is still young in its development. There still is yet to be a version 1.0. Maybe the EPS conversion will be able to handle the effects, before too long?

Edit
If it's CMYK color that you need, you could try this Inkscape extension: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5943

Thanks for the response! Yeah, I have GIMP and can convert it to EPS, but effects still don't transfer to Adobe. It would be cool to come up with an extension that allows this!