[Skencil-users] problem with sk2ps and skconvert

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 21:41 schrieb Christian Schneider:
> Hi,
>
> I've just tried the command line tools sk2ps and skconvert to convert an
> Adobe Illustrator file to EPS/PDF. The AI file can be opened with
> skencil (0.6.16 under SuSE 9.3), it can be edited and saved as EPS or
> PDF without any problems. Unfortunatly, converting the file on the
> command line does not work (neither under SuSE 9.3 with skencil 0.6.16
> or 0.6.17 nor under Kubuntu with skencil 0.6.15).
>
> I tried commands like
>
> sk2ps test.ai test.ps
> skconvert test.ai test.pdf
>
> The output is attached to this e-mail.
>
> I do not think that this problem is related to the input file format, as
> I get a long list of error messages even when trying to convert a
> skencil file to some other format.
>
> Why doesn't it work?

I guess that Skencil makes a best efforts and ignores recoverable errors.
Thus it is an import and not a conversion anymore.

So having skconvert cry out might be the right thing.
Best solution would be to have an option to force the conversion
even on errors.
(Just wild guessing.)
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