That made me curious. Inkscape 0.924 fails to load the eps. The alpha build I have fails to load it too. Imagemagick viewer loads it, but cannot print to pdf as expected. Don't really know what to expect upon further investigation. Online imagemagick converter fails to convert the file. As I said I...

I’m just going to email iStock support and see if they can do anything for me. Don't forget to aim for an svg. Illustrator should be able to save straight to svg. Jet a simple pdf won't be better than an eps file. I believe I was able to save as an svg file in inkscape but I’m not sure of the diffe...

Lazur wrote:Probably.

Anyway, had forcequit scribus as it got stuck at 33%.

Thanks for the help guys. Don’t trouble yourselves with trying to figure it out. I’m just going to email iStock support and see if they can do anything for me.

Moini wrote:I can view and open the file perfectly on Linux... Maybe updating to a newer ghostscript version helps?

I was able to open it in Inkscape after installing the newest version of ghostscript, but from there I’m lost.

brynn wrote:You could upload the file anywhere, and give us the link.

Here is a mediafire link. I uploaded it there because I'm not sure if you have dropbox or not, otherwise I can upload it there. Thank you!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/p7hyu0cx8 ... 288%29.eps

If you could share the EPS file.... Or open the EPS file in Inkscape, and save as SVG, then share the SVG with us, then we could tell you for sure, instead of doing all this guessing. The file type is too large to post here. Is there another way I can send it to you? Do you know if the same file si...

It seems that image is from Adobe Stock https://stock.adobe.com/lu_de/images/vector-realistic-isolated-fire-effect-with-smoke-for-decoration-and-covering-on-the-transparent-background-concept-of-sparkles-flame-and-light/216553506 and the checkerboard is part or kind of Adobe´s DRM protection. I´m s...

Is the checkered background part of the picture, or part of the background of the application you're using to view the image? The image you bought, is it a jpg image? If you bought a jpg, then Inkscape is not the correct software to edit the pattern out. It would probably be smarter to look for a p...

Moini wrote:If you're on Windows, you need to install ghostscript.

https://inkscape.org/learn/faq/#how-ope ... es-windows

Thanks!

As you probably cannot share the picture, please let us know what type of object the background is. It’s a picture of fire and smoke with a gray and black checkered background that’s the same pattern as a regular transparent one. I was told that the image could be edited to be transparent in a vect...

Recently bought an image on iStock, and I got as far as opening the image on inkscape, but I'm unsure on how to remove the gray and black checkered background to make it transparent. If anyone has any tips for me I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

I recently downloaded an image from iStock, and when attempting to open the EPS file, since I didn't understand what I was doing, I somehow managed to open it through notepad. When I learned that you needed to use a vector software to open the file, I downloaded Inkscape, but now I'm unable to open ...