I have been using Inkscape for some time to prepare figures for publications. I recently have been having a problem converting .svg files to .eps. When I save the eps version it is missing all text objects except 1. I am not checking the Latex box. Is this a known issue? If I choose to save as .pdf all of the text is present. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

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Hi Fogimpok,

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I'm not sure why the original message was not answered before. But your bump will at least give it another chance. (Unfortunately, I don't know the answer )

Check your svg files for flowed text and convert to regular text. Try saving as pdf first and see if that works.

Hi,
I am having the same problem.

druban wrote:Check your svg files for flowed text and convert to regular text. Try saving as pdf first and see if that works.

save as pdf looks fine.
what is a flowed text?
in the .svg file the text looks like that:
<text
xml:space="preserve"
style="font-size:40px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Sans"
x="228.89273"
y="272.63565"
id="text4519"
sodipodi:linespacing="125%"
transform="matrix(0.8,0,0,0.8,-383.81062,-340.21366)"><tspan
sodipodi:role="line"
id="tspan4521"
x="228.89273"
y="272.63565">blabla</tspan></text>
cheers

Hi, I had this problem. Could not figure it out! (still don't know what the actual problem was)... all text to the right of a certain point was hidden.

Anyway, I fixed it by selecting everything (Ctrl-A) and then making sure everything was ungrouped!

Hope that helps,

Mike

(PS Made an account here just to post this! )

I found that if you change the page size to A4 portrait and scale the drawing down to fit inside the page, then the eps export works and the content displays correctly in gsview.

Had the same problem when importing eps files created with other software (Matlab, Tecplot). Drove me nuts!

lionfish is right, ungrouping everything solves the problem. You need to ungroup objects on invisible layers, too.
After that you can start grouping things again.

I have version 0.91, and the solution I found was very simple. When saving the eps file, click the "Convert texts to paths" box.
I immediately successfully compiled the LaTeX document with a text-filled graphic.