[OS X TeX] OT: looking for a public-domain EPS file editor

Javier Elizondo javier_elizondo69 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 12:25:21 EDT 2007


I would give a try to xfig, it runs in X11, and it is
downloaded using fink. I use it for many of my graphs
in latex, and it works with EPS.

Cheers, javier
--- William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:

> On Apr 25, 2007, at 5:28 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> 
> > Is anybody aware of a public-domain EPS file
> editor, offering  
> > similar functionality to Adobe Illustrator and
> running on Linux?
> 
> Cenon is the closest thing. http://www.cenon.info
> --- not PD, but GPL  
> or some similarly open license.
> 
> For just doing the bounding box, you're probably
> best off making  
> the .eps into a .pdf, then cropping that, some of
> the pdf viewers for  
> NeXTstep afforded this functionality if memory
> serves, or printing to  
> a .pdf set to the desired size, or using TeXshop's
> select-clipping- 
> drag functionality, then convert the pdf back into a
> .eps (keep the  
> original, since this sort of thing makes editing
> awkward).
> 
> William
> 
> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
> 
> 
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