Hence both environments where Ubuntu Linux machines, I created a small shell script that does the job for me. So my first step was to install Inkscape on my local environment (Vagrant) and on the hosting server as well. I used Inkscape before to create SVGs for a laser cutter. And Inkscape can be used on the commandline (see ). I is an commonly used alternative for Adobe Illustrator.

It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and also Linux. Inkscape is a professional open source editor for vector graphics. There are multiple articles available in the web but one of them is this one:įortunately the target application was hosted on a Linux machine.

But with a little bit of research I found out, that the results should be not that good. My first intention intention was to use Image- or Graphics-Magic (see and ) for this job. My way to convert EPS files to SVG graphics The Shop-Software is running on a Ubuntu Linux machine. So I had to find a way to convert EPS files to SVG graphics. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) on the other side are widely supported (see ). The problem was, that nearly none of the currently modern Browsers supports EPS rendering for now. That was the reason, why we had to upload and save EPS files at all.īut during the customization process the user should be able to see the results in form of a preview image. The customers uses this format for the machines, that apply the graphics on the products. The EPS file format is a little bit old fashioned but commonly used in the “print sector”. These EPS files are used to print, engrave or emboss the given graphic on the configurable product. That could be a file with the logo of his company, an icon or other graphics. The user has the option to upload an EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) within the product configurator. But the base-paradigms described here can be used in other PHP based applications too because I’ve implemented them with vanilla PHP techniques. The whole implementation mentioned here was done for a Magento Online Shop. It has been done for a product configurator that had to be implemented. Recently I had the job to convert EPS files to SVG graphics.

Open eps file in inkscape