How to covert svg to eps in ghostscript

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John Boe picture John Boe · Mar 20, 2012 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

Can you please help me with a command to convert svg file to eps in ghostscript? I tried to open the svg file in Gimp but it is very big so it looks like gimp cannot open it or it take too long. I have two files which I want to convert.

Note: I have done a conversion from png to svg to convert raster to vectors and the convertion take most of my system disk space (almost 2GB). There for is it possible to use external cache drive for the command?

Answer

Kurt Pfeifle picture Kurt Pfeifle · Mar 20, 2012

You'll need the 'sister' application to Ghostscript, called GhostPDL. GhostPDL includes an executable named gsvg (or gsvg.exe on Windows) which can consume SVG input and output PostScript, PDF, PNG, TIFF, PPM, PBM, JPEG and some more.

You probably need to compile GhostPDL from source. Then run 2 commands:

gsvg \
  -dNOPAUSE \
  -sDEVICE=ps2write \
  -sOutputFile=my.ps \
   my.svg

gsvg apparently doesn't support direct EPS writing. So next, run:

gs \
  -dNOPAUSE \
  -sDEVICE=epswrite \
  -sOutputFile=my.eps \
   my.ps

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