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exporting via eps to other programs

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jco255:
I've noticed that a lot of eps-reader programs are not able to load the
eps output format form winfig. for example, i have friends using macromedia
freehand and they cannot import winfig exports such as eps. is there another
way to transfer the vectors? i tried pdf, hpgl, cgm, emf, pdf and svg (although
svg alone worked in inkscape).

Andreas:

--- Quote from: jco255 on March 03, 2008, 07:15:16 AM ---I've noticed that a lot of eps-reader programs are not able to load the
eps output format form winfig. for example, i have friends using macromedia
freehand and they cannot import winfig exports such as eps. is there another
way to transfer the vectors? i tried pdf, hpgl, cgm, emf, pdf and svg (although
svg alone worked in inkscape).

--- End quote ---

This shows again that many Windows programs have a poor PostScript-support. If yous ay "are not able", does that mean they show some error message indicating where exactly the problem is? Generally WinFIG/Xfig produces quite a good PostScript code that is much better than what many Windows programs provide i.e. via PostScript printer drivers.

Exchanging via EMF should work too. I tested with word.

You could still try to load the PS output in GhostView and save from there. Perhaps this creates different header information.

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