Comment 11 for bug 498814

Right you are, interesting that I was seeing calls to ps2pdf and ps2pdfxx during its creation.

Run with the proper commandline switch, I do get a PDF output, readable by Adobe Reader, gsview, and Inkscape. The filesize is larger than that produced by Alvin, see the attached file.

So: why does Inkscape choke on the file Alvin Penner attached? Why does it choke given the eps input, but not on all eps as I listed above? If the manual conversion worked using Inkscape from the commandline, why does Inkscape choke when doing it from the GUI and on the PDF created with ps2pdf manually?

And if I run the conversion with inkscapec on the commandline, using the PDF generated by ps2pdf (which matches the size of Alvin's file), the conversion proceeds successfully and generates a file that is exactly identical to what inkscapec gives with the eps input.

This really isn't a huge problem for me, as I'm generally making my gnuplot stuff with a batch script anyway; it's trivial to add a couple lines to convert all the generated files to PDF via inkscapec. But it would be nice not to have to remember to do that for any eps file I want to edit.

Thanks for all the help, guys.