Dear All
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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Dear All
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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I was going to recommend imagemagick, which comes with Fedora, but I searched to be sure. I have found http://www.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2002-July/003821.html which redirects to http://www.pstoedit.com/
which can do the conversion.
Regards,
Antonio
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On 2/5/07, Antonio Olivares olivares14031@yahoo.com wrote:
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
I was going to recommend imagemagick, which comes with Fedora, but I searched to be sure. I have found http://www.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2002-July/003821.html which redirects to http://www.pstoedit.com/
which can do the conversion.
Thanks, Antonio. Unfortunately, pstoedit cannot here perform the conversion; there is no output.
Paul
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Paul Smith wrote:
On 2/5/07, Antonio Olivares olivares14031@yahoo.com wrote:
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
I was going to recommend imagemagick, which comes with Fedora, but I searched to be sure. I have found http://www.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2002-July/003821.html which redirects to http://www.pstoedit.com/
which can do the conversion.
Thanks, Antonio. Unfortunately, pstoedit cannot here perform the conversion; there is no output.
Did you try .emf or .wmf?
Try "golfer.eps" from the ghostscript examples directory -- this works for me using the "-f emf:-OO" option setting and viewing in OO.org draw.
On 3/6/07, George N. White III aa056@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
I was going to recommend imagemagick, which comes with Fedora, but I searched to be sure. I have found http://www.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2002-July/003821.html which redirects to http://www.pstoedit.com/
which can do the conversion.
Thanks, Antonio. Unfortunately, pstoedit cannot here perform the conversion; there is no output.
Did you try .emf or .wmf?
Try "golfer.eps" from the ghostscript examples directory -- this works for me using the "-f emf:-OO" option setting and viewing in OO.org draw.
Thanks, George, but with
pstoedit -f emf:-OO golfer.eps
I do not get any output file. Am I doing something wrong?
Paul
On 2/5/07, Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
What are you ultimately trying to do? IMO you should never convert *to* WMF, always away from it. There might be another format that will prove just as useful for your application.
Chris
On 3/6/07, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
Is there some way of converting eps files to wmf format?
What are you ultimately trying to do? IMO you should never convert *to* WMF, always away from it. There might be another format that will prove just as useful for your application.
Thanks, Chris. My idea is to use vectorial figures drawn by Inkscape in OpenOffice Presentation. The current conversion from Inkscape to OpenOffice Draw is not satisfactory, as the text is neglected, i.e., not visible. I tried to circumvent the problem by converting to wmf and hence to OpenOffice Draw.
Paul
Thanks, Chris. My idea is to use vectorial figures drawn by Inkscape in OpenOffice Presentation. The current conversion from Inkscape to OpenOffice Draw is not satisfactory, as the text is neglected, i.e., not visible. I tried to circumvent the problem by converting to wmf and hence to OpenOffice Draw.
I tried this:
1. made a vector object and some text in inkscape (v0.45) 2. saved as EPS ('outline text' was checked') 3. Went to Insert>Picture>From File in OO Draw(v2.0.4)
That worked OK. It seems odd that OO doesn't appear to handle SVG.
Chris
On 3/6/07, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Chris. My idea is to use vectorial figures drawn by Inkscape in OpenOffice Presentation. The current conversion from Inkscape to OpenOffice Draw is not satisfactory, as the text is neglected, i.e., not visible. I tried to circumvent the problem by converting to wmf and hence to OpenOffice Draw.
I tried this:
- made a vector object and some text in inkscape (v0.45)
- saved as EPS ('outline text' was checked')
- Went to Insert>Picture>From File in OO Draw(v2.0.4)
That worked OK. It seems odd that OO doesn't appear to handle SVG.
It works, Chris, but the picture looks not very nice, i.e., it looks as it were a bitmap. That is the problem with inserting eps pictures in OpenOffice.
Paul
Paul Smith wrote:
On 3/6/07, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Chris. My idea is to use vectorial figures drawn by Inkscape in OpenOffice Presentation. The current conversion from Inkscape to OpenOffice Draw is not satisfactory, as the text is neglected, i.e., not visible. I tried to circumvent the problem by converting to wmf and hence to OpenOffice Draw.
I tried this:
- made a vector object and some text in inkscape (v0.45)
- saved as EPS ('outline text' was checked')
- Went to Insert>Picture>From File in OO Draw(v2.0.4)
That worked OK. It seems odd that OO doesn't appear to handle SVG.
It works, Chris, but the picture looks not very nice, i.e., it looks as it were a bitmap. That is the problem with inserting eps pictures in OpenOffice.
Paul
It WILL be a bitmap. OO.org does not have the ability to render EPS files.
OO.org can export SVG but not import SVG (yet).
While it is an entirely different direction, I use the 'beamer' package for LaTeX to do my presentations, whereby I can generate EPS image files and include them that way.
You can then create a PDF file and use one of the PDF viewers in full screen mode to display it.
More information on beamer is here:
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
On 3/6/07, Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
It works, Chris, but the picture looks not very nice, i.e., it looks as it were a bitmap. That is the problem with inserting eps pictures in OpenOffice.
Have you tried saving ODG from Inkscape? If the data isn't sensitive, mail me an example EPS - maybe I can figure something out.
You need the presentation to look tip-top on-screen, in print, or both?
Chris
On 3/7/07, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
It works, Chris, but the picture looks not very nice, i.e., it looks as it were a bitmap. That is the problem with inserting eps pictures in OpenOffice.
Have you tried saving ODG from Inkscape? If the data isn't sensitive, mail me an example EPS - maybe I can figure something out.
You need the presentation to look tip-top on-screen, in print, or both?
Thanks, Chris. Yes, I have tried saving as ODG from Inkscape, but the text is not visible in the ODG figure after conversion. An example is attached.
And yes, I need that the presentation looks perfect both on screen and in print.
Paul
On 3/8/07, Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Chris. Yes, I have tried saving as ODG from Inkscape, but the text is not visible in the ODG figure after conversion. An example is attached.
And yes, I need that the presentation looks perfect both on screen and in print.
Ouch. I've not spent any time in OO Draw until now - it's not so good :( Then again, I've been spoiled by years of AI use.
Back on topic: I tried various mixtures of vector formats with no luck - every conversion ended up wonky in OO. I assume that you have a good reason for not setting the text in OO Impress - that would probably bypass the text issues, but...
In order to get your SVG into Impress and make it look good on-screen and in print, I used this method:
1. Inkscape: Save as EPS [1] 2. GIMP: Open to desired res [2] 3. GIMP: Save as PNG 4. OO: Insert Picture
[1] - tried going straight from SVG to GIMP, but the Inkscape SVG contains a page border and GIMP renders the whole thing - that could probably be changed in Inkscape, but I didn't explore further.
[2] - I used 72 DPI. 300 looked terrible on-screen (LCD monitor, in case it matters). Printing to an inkjet produced good results, but I doubt that it would look as good on a laser.
I'm not satisfied with this method, as there should be a way of keeping everything vector - but I feel that OO is still a work in progress and (seemingly) doesn't have robust support for vector objects yet.
I've stumbled across a SVG importer for OO, but it appears to require Java 5 (aka jre 1.5 a la Sun). This page has links to the importer and bugs related to SVG and OO: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter
Anybody: thoughts on this? Chris
On 3/8/07, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
I've stumbled across a SVG importer for OO, but it appears to require Java 5 (aka jre 1.5 a la Sun). This page has links to the importer and bugs related to SVG and OO: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter
In case anyone is interested, the SVG importer seemes to work with Java 6 (aka jre 1.6) on FC6. The bin+rpm installs into /usr/java. One must then go into the options of OO, select "Java" and pick the new JRE. (fairly painless)
After that, one can open this test svg file (a psuedo-benchmark) in OO: http://www.linuxrising.org/importsvg/gearflowers.svg
And it will look like the this - a *vast* improvement over any other method of importing that I've tried: http://cr33.is-a-geek.com/random/Screenshot.png
OO will then open the example SVG provided by PS earlier in the thread [1], but the main problem seems to be that paths in OO are not smoothed (aka antialiased) at all. Lest we despair, work is being done to convert the drawing functions in OO over to cairo and XCanvas: http://blogs.sun.com/thorsten/entry/first_impression_draw_on_cairocanvas
Something to look forward to, at least.
Chris
[1] Text must be converted to a path in Inkscape before it will open correctly in OO.
On 3/9/07, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
I've stumbled across a SVG importer for OO, but it appears to require Java 5 (aka jre 1.5 a la Sun). This page has links to the importer and bugs related to SVG and OO: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter
In case anyone is interested, the SVG importer seemes to work with Java 6 (aka jre 1.6) on FC6. The bin+rpm installs into /usr/java. One must then go into the options of OO, select "Java" and pick the new JRE. (fairly painless)
After that, one can open this test svg file (a psuedo-benchmark) in OO: http://www.linuxrising.org/importsvg/gearflowers.svg
And it will look like the this - a *vast* improvement over any other method of importing that I've tried: http://cr33.is-a-geek.com/random/Screenshot.png
OO will then open the example SVG provided by PS earlier in the thread [1], but the main problem seems to be that paths in OO are not smoothed (aka antialiased) at all. Lest we despair, work is being done to convert the drawing functions in OO over to cairo and XCanvas: http://blogs.sun.com/thorsten/entry/first_impression_draw_on_cairocanvas
Something to look forward to, at least.
Chris
[1] Text must be converted to a path in Inkscape before it will open correctly in OO.
Thanks, Chris. Yes, the the conversions with the SVG_Import_Filter loose the smoothness of the paths.
Paul