On Mon, Jan 02, 2006, Omer Zak wrote about ""Fixing" version of eps files exported by gimp": > Turns out that gimp 2.2.6 (the version shipped with Debian Sarge) > exports to eps version 3.0, while other tools export/expect eps version > 2.0.
Given that EPSF 3.0 was created in 1992, isn't it silly that modern tools still have problems with it? They can stick to the 2.0 standard in the comments they generate, but 14 years (!) is more than enough time to get these programs to *accept* 3.0 epsf. Not to mention that the differences are actually tiny: as you saw, just accepting the "3.0" line is enough for most applications, without any further change! I suggest you write the authors of relevant applications and ask them to make the trivial change necessary to their code. Check out the last chapter of http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5002.EPSF_Spec.pdf to see what changed in EPSF 3.0 (the short story: nothing that should be important to most applications). > sed -e 1s/3\\.0/2.0/g < ver3epsfile.eps > ver2epsfile.eps > > I do not know what are the real differences between version 2.0 and 3.0 > and whether gimp actually uses any 3.0 specific features. Since your trivial sed worked, it means that nothing important changed; The application in question should have just accepted EPSF 3.0, just as it accepts 2.0... -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Jan 2 2006, 2 Tevet 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at http://nadav.harel.org.il |math. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
