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The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Posted May 4, 2004 22:36 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

What I *really* want is a way to *import* Postscript into OpenOffice.org. Not as an image (though even a postscript file with a preview image as XFig handles it would be nice, and OOo doesn't do that), but as the actual objects, so that they might be moved about and further edited.

I've managed to do it, sort of, into XFig using ps2fig. I find that it's sort of a pain to deal with at that point.

I also haven't managed to export XFig into something that can be imported into OpenOffice.org. This too is a pain.

ps2fig does have a DXF option, which ostensibly OpenOffice.org supports, but I find the translation is no good. OpenOffice.org thinks that the imported drawing (in the cases I've tried-- I have a very specific need) is
*tiny*, and the quantization of the positions completely screw everything up. Fonts are the wrong relative sizes as well.

-Rob

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PostScript import

Posted May 5, 2004 2:08 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

There's a program called pstoedit that converts PostScript into various
editable formats, including Adobe Illustrator, AutoCAD dxf, fig/xfig,
Sketch, tgif, and many others.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Posted May 5, 2004 4:40 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]

Sounds like you want pstoedit.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Posted May 6, 2004 2:01 UTC (Thu) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]

pstoedit is what I've used to import postscript files into XFig.

I have yet to make a series of transitions to import it into OpenOffice.org succesfully, however. Have you managed to do that with pstoedit? If so, how?

-Rob

The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Posted May 5, 2004 8:18 UTC (Wed) by lolando (subscriber, #7139) [Link]

I have no idea whether Open Office can edit SVG files, but if so, you can import an EPS file into Sodipodi and save it as SVG. Or edit it in Sodipodi.