

The newer Macromedia Freehand formats.Their UI is quite similar to Inkscape's (owing to inspiration of both by Xara's ancient Artworks for the Acorn Archimedes) it suggests a path of least resistance for those seeking to convert. Embroidery file formats (Ksm, Melco, PCS, PES, Tajima.) ?.Windows Metafile (wmf) (there are a lot of clipart packages in this format).To really be considered a successful application, we must take these file formats in and be able to save them out. Adobe Illustrator File Formats (Newer ones are PDF 1.4 documents).We really need to import/export the following formats: But it still beats a jaggy PNG for making customer presentation materials.We need EPS, Adobe SVG, and PDF in/out support. My takeaway is that nothing involving PDFs (and possibly SVGs) is consistent from one piece of software to another, and possibly instance-to-instance. I didn't do any deeper analysis, in either the graphic design sense as did or in the SVG object hierarchy sense as did. Being the good engineer, I went for the smaller filesize. Initially, I thought that the version imported using the internal option has a tiny bit better color saturation, but after rearranging their tiled positions on screen, I'm convinced that my initial impression was a screen artifact and the two converter options produced visibly indistinguishable results. To my eye, using an el cheapo corporate PC and LCD monitor in not-controlled office lighting, I believe the two versions are indistinguishable. Trying a similar chain of conversions has in the past rasterized the graphic for me, which isn't what I wanted. Neither SVG got rasterized - no jaggies apparent up to 3200%. I imported the file using the internal option with "Replace PDF fonts" unticked and saved as an SVG, resulting in a 7 kB SVG. (I don't stay updated because it works, and version updates at work are time-consuming.) I imported the file using the Poppler/Cairo option and saved as an SVG, resulting in an 8 kB SVG. I then twice imported the PDF into Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, ). This PDF didn't get rasterized - no jaggies at up to 3200%. So I imported the EPS (RGB colorspace) and saved it as a PDF (using default options) resulting in a 7 kB PDF. The only software I have at work (on highly locked-down Windows 10) which opens EPS is Adobe Acrobat DC. The one I needed is available as an EPS (in your choice of colorspaces) with filesize 170 kB for RGB.

My employer has a repository of company-approved graphics. It's six letters in a proprietary font and a corporate logo 'bug' in a single (not black) color.

I'd post the EPS, but that probably would make somebody in corporate branding mad.

I did a similar experiment in converting a graphic logo from EPS to SVG.
