Beyond the Basics SVG obtained from EPS is now very different in Inkscape 1.3
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Beyond the Basics SVG obtained from EPS is now very different in Inkscape 1.3
Beyond the Basics SVG obtained from EPS is now very different in Inkscape 1.3
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Beyond the Basics SVG obtained from EPS is now very different in Inkscape 1.3
If you load some EPS file and save it as SVG the resulting file in inkscape 1.3 is now very different from files produced by previous inkscape versions (e.g. inkscape version1.2).
For example: text is now located inside the <path> tag, it contains new property called "aria-label", in previous versions text was inside <text> tag, what I think is more appropriate.
It is very unconvenient that in every new inkscape version when transforming EPS to SVG the resulting file looks very different, especially for those using command line conversion and changing contents of the resulting SVG file automaticaly (e.g. changing some text with another one).
I think it would be very useful to keep in some way (with an option?) backward compatibility of the resulting files.
Some iinfo here:
https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.3/Inkscape_1.3.html#PDF_import
Thanks for pointing to info. That is very useful information.
Then I better give up. There were huge changes when transforming EPS to SVG from inkscape 0.9? to 1.0, I rewrote my code to be able to follow the changes, and I have no energy to do it again. Who knows: maybe there will be changes in 1.4 again? Rewriting for each new version is a Sisyphean task - I better stay with inkscape 1.1.
Attached are two SVG files which were both produced from the same EPS file, once with inkscape 1.2 (inkscape2.svg) and once with inkscape 1.3 (inkscape3.svg).
What I do not like in inkscape 1.3 is that some text labels are simply concatenated with #10:
aria-label="Kennedy Scalia Thomas Roberts Alito"instead of being separate text labels with exact position specified:
<tspan y="0"x="0">Kennedy</tspan><tspan
y="30"
x="0">Scalia</tspan><tspan
y="60"
x="0">Thomas</tspan><tspan
y="90"
x="0">Roberts</tspan><tspan
y="120"
x="0">Alito</tspan></text>
Details:
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Inkscape 1.2:
<gid="g380"
transform="scale(10)">
<text
xml:space="preserve"
transform="matrix(0,1,1,0,54,320)"
style="font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:18px;font-family:Helvetica;-inkscape-font-specification:Helvetica;writing-mode:lr-tb;fill:#231f20;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none"
id="text384"><tspan
y="0"
x="0">Breyer</tspan></text>
</g>
<gid="g400"
transform="scale(10)">
<text
xml:space="preserve"
transform="matrix(0,1,1,0,174,320)"
style="font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:18px;font-family:Helvetica;-inkscape-font-specification:Helvetica;writing-mode:lr-tb;fill:#656263;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none"
id="text412"><tspan
y="0"
x="0">Kennedy</tspan><tspan
y="30"
x="0">Scalia</tspan><tspan
y="60"
x="0">Thomas</tspan><tspan
y="90"
x="0">Roberts</tspan><tspan
y="120"
x="0">Alito</tspan></text>
</g>
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Inkscape 1.3:
<pathid="path22"
d="m 1.3251953,0 v -12.890625 h 4.828125 c 0.984375,0 ........ -0.257812,1.8515625 V 0 Z m 0,0"
style="fill:#231f20;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none"
aria-label="Breyer"
transform="matrix(1.3333333,0,0,1.3333333,406.66667,184)" />
<pathid="path25"
d="m 1.3251953,0 v -12.890625 h 1.6992188 v 6.3984375 ........,0.89062 -0.515625,0.59473 -0.773438,1.48829 -0.773438,2.6836 z m 0,0"
style="fill:#656263;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none"
aria-label="Kennedy Scalia Thomas Roberts Alito"
transform="matrix(1.3333333,0,0,1.3333333,406.66667,344)" />
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The new file is very inconvenient: if you want to change these labels with new ones with some program. Export with inkscape 1.3 is for me useless. Also if you see the sizes of two files
(inkscape2.svg and inkscape3.svg) the new file is more than 4 times larger in size.
Thanks Tyler Durden again for very useful info. The question I have now is the following one:
How can I tell inkscape using COMMAND LINE that I would like to use import EPS/PDF option "Keep missing fonts' names" (see attachment).
The default option called "Draw missing fonts" converts text to paths and text cannot be identified in the obtained SVG anymore, so it is not useful to me.
Thanks for any reply in advance.
Andrej
This is still open: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/2172
Adding your comments may lead to additional input from developers.
Thanks. I did leave a comment there. I hope I did it properly.
One more simple question, I have a short EPS file like this:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0%%BoundingBox: 0 0 100 50
/Arial 18 selectfont
25 25 moveto (Andrej) show
showpage
Is there any way (using command line) that inkscape 1.3 would read this file and converts it to SVG where text will stay text?
For example:
inkscape --export-plain-svg --export-filename=a.svg a.epsdoes not work, it converts text to path.
Is there anything I should write in EPS file instead of:
/Arial 18 selectfontWould inkscape 1.3 recognize any font and leave the text as text, or it simply converts any text to path not regarding which font is used?
One of advantages of SVG is that text is still stored as text, so that you can for example search inside picture for a text. It is really a pity to transform text to path!
Maybe somebody can provide answers to the following two very basic questions;:
1. When transforming EPS to SVG via command line it seems to me that one of the following options is used:
Which one is used (a) or b)) ?
2. If a) is true: Which fonts inkscape considers as "missing fonts"? Asking differently: what font should in EPS file be used so that inkscape will not consider it as "missing". Whatever font I use in EPS (e.g.
/Arial 18 selectfont) inkscape does not recognize this and transforms all texts to paths. What is a pity :(I'd try asking the devs that frequent the user chat: https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_user
Again, very helpful suggestion. Thanks. I asked this question on user chat and got the right answer. If anybody is interested in this:
In Inkscape 1.3 command line you can add the switch "--pdf-font-strategy=keep" and get SVG where text is retained as text.
Problem solved for me!
or even better:
"--pdf-font-strategy=substitute"
After installing Inkscape 1.3.2 I return to the same problem again.
In inkscape 1.3 when using (in command line execution) the switch:
"--pdf-font-strategy=substitute"
font-family:Arial
is used.
But in 1.3.2
font-family:Harrington
Is there a way to tell inkscape which font to use as a substitution?