EPS editor?

rpz · 08-24-2005, 03:57 PM

Does anyone know of an editor for PS/EPS(/PDF) files? Like Illustrator, but free (and for linux obviously). I'm looking for some program to let me move elements around in the EPS, and change line width and so on. I really prefer not to do that in a text editor as illustrator generates quite messy eps files ...

mjrich · 08-24-2005, 04:27 PM

Not that I know of, however it is easy enough to either import PS files into the GIMP and edit them there, before exporting them once again; or using Imagemagick to convert them to FIG files and then edit using Xfig or an equivalent.

Cheers,

mj

rpz · 08-24-2005, 04:37 PM

GIMP rasterizes them so that is not an option. Converting to FIG might work but I fear they are destroyed too much by it (I want to change a really small piece in an otherwise complex figure). I'll try the FIG thing but I'm not very optimistic I'm afraid.

Fedora Core 4 binaries on imagemagick.org. What a luxuary!

rpz · 08-24-2005, 04:55 PM

Yes! Found it! pstoedit
Not the best of solutions, but works for me.

By the way, imagemagick rasterizes too, or I missed some important flag. (?)

rpz · 08-24-2005, 05:00 PM

Nooo it does not work

It screws up bounding boxes and fonts. Damnit, I was almost happy. Guess I'll have to find a Windows machine with illustrator now

mjrich · 08-24-2005, 05:03 PM

Oops -- was meaning pstoedit, not Imagemagick

It worked fine for the diagrams I was working with at the time, though by the sounds of it yours are a tad more fiddely.

Good luck, and post back if you do find a better linux alternative.

Cheers,

mj