Xara Xtreme and Inkscape

[helpmhost]

Is there a way to move vectors between inkscape and Xara?

I read in another post that they are working on a svg convertion tool. But is there another current way (one that won't require a conversion tool). What I mean is: is there a current vector format they both share in common?

Thanks.

[Michael]

EPS should do the trick, but experimenting with the EPS-export from Inkscape made me going nuts.

As far as I can see, Xtreme has some extreme troubles with importing perfectly normal EPS-files. Even Word renders the following file perfectly:
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%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: 0.43
%%Pages: 1
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%BoundingBox: 33 353 351 739
%%HiResBoundingBox: 33.885715 353.88572 350.11428 738.68572
%%EndComments
%%Page: 1 1
0 842 translate
0.8 -0.8 scale
gsave [1 0 0 1 0 0] concat
gsave [1 0 0 1 0 0] concat
gsave
0.69803923 0 0.69803923 setrgbcolor
newpath
42.857143 129.50504 moveto
437.14285 129.50504 lineto
437.14285 609.50504 lineto
42.857143 609.50504 lineto
42.857143 129.50504 lineto
closepath
fill
grestore
0.52156866 0.52156866 0.52156866 setrgbcolor
[] 0 setdash
1 setlinewidth
0 setlinejoin
0 setlinecap
newpath
42.857143 129.50504 moveto
437.14285 129.50504 lineto
437.14285 609.50504 lineto
42.857143 609.50504 lineto
42.857143 129.50504 lineto
closepath
stroke
grestore
grestore
showpage
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Xtreme does a wild guess what kind of file it is and than returns nothing. Ghostview?script, Acrobat, Word and gran' ole Illustrator have no problems with it.

[Egg Bramhill]

helpmhost
What file types can Inkscape export to?
Egg

[Suvek]

As Michael said Xara is not able to import EPS from Inkscape and other export formats are even worse (svg, ps, tex).
I'm afraid that conversion is the only way. I tried it through Adobe Illustrator - Ink EPS/SVG save as Illustrator EPS that Xara can handle.

[Michael]

helpmhost
What file types can Inkscape export to?
Egg

Inkscape is a very capable SVG-editor, so it's main file format is SVG (and it does that with flare (no pun intended, Xara ...)). Currently, I'm testing Inkscape 0.43+devel, built Jan 18 2006.

Export vector filetypes are: SVG(Z), PS, EPS, POV and TEX.
Bitmap export by means of PNG. (with full alpha-channel transparancies)

Thanks to Google's efforts (Google's summer code event) the code has improved dramatically last month's and it's user interface is by no means as sleek as Xara's but very usable.

Given the fact that it's cross-platform I'd give it a very healthy future. More details at www.inkscape.org