Importing EPS crops the image

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boounce
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Importing EPS crops the image

Postby boounce » Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:56 am

Hi.

I *finally* got Inkscape to import my .eps file. The problem I'm having now is this...

1) I select import and select my .eps file

2) I get to the PDF import setting screen.

On the right side it shows my image, but it is cropped so that only the center is showing.

I have already changed my document settings to increase the canvas (page) size.

Any tips?

~suv
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Joined: Sun May 10, 2009 2:07 am

Re: Importing EPS crops the image

Postby ~suv » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:06 am

boounce wrote:On the right side it shows my image, but it is cropped so that only the center is showing.

The cropping to the portrait paper size (US Letter or A4, depending on your Ghostscript installation) is done by ps2pdf from Ghostscript, used in the background to convert the EPS file to PDF (which is then imported to Inkscape using internal routines).

The issue [1] was recently addressed and fixed in Inkscape trunk and for Inkscape 0.48.1. Get a copy of 0.48.1 as soon as it is available for your platform (or use a development snapshot till then).


[1] Bug #649842 in Inkscape: “import from EPS ignores bounding box


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