Good Day everyone,
new to the Forum here and just getting accustomed to Inkscape.
I work as a student for a company at the moment and was tasked to design the safety signs for our Site.

For this, the company purchased a number of stock images from a rather known website for me to put together.
Since the signs will get printed in a pretty large format, i definately need to create them as vector graphics.

Now here is my problem: When i open one of the .eps file we purchased, the skin color of the worker is several shades more red than it is supposed to.
With the .eps we also got a high res .jpeg, and when I open thefile in an online .eps viewer the colors are fine.

My suspion is that the .eps file got created in Adobe illustrator or something, and that ghostscript (yes I am working on a Windows Machine) is not correctly importin them, due to compatibility issues.

I have tried playing around with different Filters , Transformations, having it on a semi opaque layer and adding different colored backgrounds, and i have considered replace color with as an option. But the graphic contains a lot of gradients that would also need to be changed.
Now before I go ahead and manually change the color of every singe path, trying to replicate what the original .jpeg looked like, i thought i ask if there is a genereal Operation/ transformation i haven't thought of /don't know of yet which could fix this.

Attached you find a screenshot of what I am seeing in Inkscape

SIDENOTE
I know it is a bit impolite to post two questions into a single topic, but since it is just kind of a YES/NO question, I figured i just add it here:
I am also a bit worried about the white lines that show up in the eps version - my thinking is that those are put there intentionally by inkscape so you can easier distinguish separate objects, and that they will be invisible in the pritn afterwards. But if I am wrong, I definately have to do something about it, or else the print will look pretty messed up afterwards.
I have already found out that i can make those go away by putting approprietely colored objects on a layer below the figure, but i would still be a bit more reassured if i knew for sure wheter or not this is another artifact of an improper import, or if this is just normal bevaiour for the program


Best Regards, and thanks alot already for reading my convoluted story any attempt at helping me

Hi.

My first guess is the eps was saved faulty. Eps is a printer's format, not for editing. Doesn't support for example custom blending modes, which is how the original probably was drawn. My guess is it wasn't converted well then.

Other case could be it had a cmyk or other custom colour profile. Would check first with imagemagick/scribus (although I never used them before but they should do the job).

The white lines are probably transparent, and the white rendered clear background shows through which is the artifact of anti-aliasing.
Which is visible no more than 1-1 px at an edge, independent from the zoom level. At high resolution print it shouldn't be visible.
Would need the drawing to be constructed from overlapping shapes to overcome any of that issue.
Or some way ditching anti-aliasing.

Could it also be displaced gradients? (My first bet would be the color profiles, though)

Are these white lines showing in the EPS version of the image which you attached? Or are they only showing in Inkscape? I see 3 or 4....maybe 5 very small white lines in what you attached (the EPS version of the man), but there's no way to know what's causing them without a file to look at. Inkscape would not add new contents, but it might misinterpret something, or not support some features. Putting colored blocks behind the white lines is definitely not the best way to handle them. But the first step is to figure out what's causing them. Then you can know how to proceed.

I don't know about the color shift.

If you'd like to share the SVG file (open the EPS file in Inkscape and save), and possibly the original EPS file, we could investigate. Otherwise, we're just guessing.

Good Morning everyone,
thanks alot for your answers thus far.
Because the file is to big to upload it here directly, i have uploaded it to dropbox.
This is the link to the raw stock image:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tdkolhpsfv2v9 ... 5.eps?dl=0

And here i have cut out only the worker from the image since I don't need all the warning signs that are in the stock image. Also, he needs to be wearing a safety vest, so I thought it would be best to add this in a separate file.

This was also already saved as .svg image:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jahsipjfhxjix ... r.svg?dl=0

I hope this helps in understanding the Problem.
I have exported the file as a .pdf to see if the issues with the white lines still persist, and they only show up as long as i don't zoom in, so i think that it should be fine to print. Even if they were in there aftewards, I don't think you would notice a line of one pixel in with on a sign which is 2m x 1,2m

Looks like the gradients did not move when the objects were moved... there's a button for that:

That's not all there is - the colors are still looking different in Inkscape. The eps file is in CMYK. So, yes, it is at least in part the color profile.

Opened in Scribus or in a pdf viewer, the colors are correct.

So, a working workaround is:
- open the EPS file with Scribus
- export to SVG
- open that in Inkscape

Apparently it was a general compatibility issue with the file.
I contactet Canstock and the customer support agent directly exported the file as an .svg from illustrator for me. Now the colors are right and all the white lines are gone. Furthermore, some objects are made up of much less constutents now. For instance the black part of his glasses which you can see pretty clearly in tylerdurden's post used to be made from many small black blocks (thus the lines) and now is solid.

I will give Moini's solution a try as soon I am home and I can install scribus to confirm it, just in case someone else stumbles across this problem in the future, then we can mark the thread as solved.

Thanks alot for all your help