: How can one edit Illustrator CS .eps files on OSX? In my free physics textbook on http://www.motionmountain.net , there are hundreds of images, all made with Illustrator CS 11 (yes, from around
In my free physics textbook on www.motionmountain.net , there are hundreds of images, all made with Illustrator CS 11 (yes, from around the year 2010) in eps format. But the new Illustrator has become unaffordable, even more so for a non-profit organisation. How can one edit such .eps files now?
My attempts in the last days (August 2017) gave these results:
Corel Draw: does not seem to exist for OSX
Xara Designer Pro: does not seem to exist for OSX
Affinity Designer: has a trial version; but one cannot edit the text in the .eps files coming from Illustrator CS; font sizes are wrong.
AutoCAD LT: the trial version cannot open .eps files
Inkscape: able to edit text in .eps files, but saved .eps files garble the result and the font, wrong when imported back to Illustrator.
McGimp: does not seem to be able to edit text from Illustrator .eps
What is the best way to proceed? Is this summary wrong in some cases? Or are there better alternatives?
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It seems that the problem you are having with Inkscape are misnamed fonts. Try the following:
Open EPS in Inkscape.
Select some text.
Look at the XML of that text (Ctrl + Shift + X).
There will be a font entry somewhere. Change this to a reasonable, installed font (usually the font you originally used). If this works, rejoice and continue. Otherwise despair.
Use some search-and-replace tool to change all similar font instructions in the SVG’s source.
If this does not fix all text, you probably used more than one font. Select a remaining broken text and go to step 3.
if you convert the fonts to paths in Inkscape before export all should be ok
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