website/blog/2022-02-04_inkscape-eps.md

Inkscape Postscript Export in 2022

A lot of older guides using Inkscape to convert SVG images to PostScript use a -E CLI flag that no longer exists in the Inkscape CLI: inkscape input.svg -E out.eps.

The correct way to do this in the current year:

inkscape --export-type=eps -o out.eps in.svg

If you want to automatically convert all of the .svg files in your current working directory to .eps files, you can use something like this script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for svg in *.svg; do
    bname=$(basename "$svg" | sed 's/\.svg$//g')
    echo "Converting \""$bname"\"..."
    echo -e "\tinkscape --export-type=eps -o \"$bname.eps\" \"$svg\""
    inkscape --export-type=eps -o "$bname.eps" "$svg"
done