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I’ve just had to convert an EPS-File to SVG to get to play with it and re-export it again to png. Inkscape did fail me, because although it can export eps-files, it’s not able to import them. So, i had to look for another way..

First thing i found is pstoedit, which is a small program that can convert ps/eps- and pdf-files into other vector formats. On the site, they say, that the svg-option is only available as an optional shareware plugin, but once i installed it via

sudo apt-get install pstoedit

i was able to convert the file to svg:

pstoedit muster.eps muster.svg

But it seems, pstoedit has some minor bugs in the conversion process and some paths were filled, rather than originally being hollow.. I then found this blog entry on Gimparoo! on how to convert eps files manually. He suggests opening the eps file using gimp with a high resolution, saving it as a bitmap-based graphics (png), importing it into inkscape and tracing the bitmap to paths.. The problem with this method could be in my opinion that color-graphics could get “lost in the translation”.

Looking through the comment section, i found someone suggesting pstoedit (which compared to the method suggested by Scott is way more compact!) but then i found the following advice:

An other option is use Scribus, import and save as svg.

And that’s it! Scribus imports the eps-format very easily and exports it to svg without problem.

I love open source!