| Summary: | eps looks toataly broken when opened with Karbon | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] karbon | Reporter: | Christian Boltz <kde-bugs> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Jan Hambrecht <jaham> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bvbfan |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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the problematic EPS file, gzipped
screenshot showing rendering in KGhostView and Karbon14 Load EPS files correctly Screenshot with Karbon 3.1.0 |
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Description
Christian Boltz
2007-07-06 00:34:32 UTC
Created attachment 21066 [details]
the problematic EPS file, gzipped
Created attachment 21067 [details]
screenshot showing rendering in KGhostView and Karbon14
The problem with EPS or PS is that it's an extremly difficult file format.
But, there exists a great tool called GhostScript.
Both KGhostView and Karbon use GhostScript to interpret a PS or EPS file.
Karbon however converts it first to the Illustrator format.
So there are a couple of problems that can arise:
1. The conversion from EPS to Illustrator isn't perfect
2. The import filter for Illustrator isn't perfect.
Luckely there are some existing solutions:
1. Using pstoedit and skencil
a. Use pstoedit to convert the EPS file to the Skencil format:
pstoedit -f sk inputfile.eps outputfile.sk
b. Use the Skencil convertion utility to convert from the Skencil format to SVG
skconvert inputfile.sk outputfile.svg
I tested this and it works very well.
The disadvantage is that you need to install a great deal of other packages to make pstoedit and skencil run. And this might not be what you want.
2. Using Poppler
a. Use Poppler to open a PDF or EPS file.
b. Create a PDF import filter to create an ODF document.
I've not yet looked into this, but this is the technique used by PDF2SVG:
http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html
Why not use the SVG conversion of pstoedit directly?
Example: pstoedit -f svg-plot inputfile.eps outputfile.svg
Well, it doesn't work. It doesn't create a valid svg file.
In my opinion, for the short term, if EPS has to be available in Karbon soon, then the first solution using pstoedit and skencil is the best solution.
In the long term, a dedicated PDF import filter using Poppler would be very nice.
Update: Seems Poppler can't directly open an EPS file. Yes i think the preferred solution would be to create a pdf import filter (which is a must have anyway) and convert ps files to pdf which then can be imported. The pdf import filter is on the TODO of karbon already. Created attachment 24822 [details]
Load EPS files correctly
Above is a patch to load EPS files correctly using pstoedit and skconvert. It's not fast, at least with the resolution I've used for clipping. Maybe that can be made user adjustable in a window. Here's the result: http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6748/karbonepsgv0.png Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! Dear Bug Submitter, This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! Created attachment 116341 [details]
Screenshot with Karbon 3.1.0
It looks better in current Karbon (3.1.0), but there are still some serious rendering errors - see the screenshot I just attached. I don't get it, you apply a patch or what file you use? |
