Tadek’s Blog

I recently wanted to make small changes to EPS charts I had once generated. It seems that EPS-editing is not so simple, but i have at least two solutions that works:

1. Import the file into CorelDraw and save back as EPS. I had previously been importing EPS files there and the results were amazingly good (BTW: choose “interpreted EPS”, not the one decoded by the system driver!).

2. Use pstoedit to save it to a .fig file, use xfig and then export back as EPS.

   pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" <file>.eps <file>.fig
   

I tried the last option so far and in kindof worked. The resulting file looked ok, but the bounding box was somewhat changed (that was probably the problem in the original file). Also the resulting EPS file was 10 times bigger then the original one. Well… nothing is perfect. Wonder how the CorelDraw solution works…

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