Impress can't handle eps images

users
#1

Using LibreOffice 5.0.6.2 under CentOS 7.x. Impress can't handle eps
images--output pdf contains only completely unreadable low res bitmaps. I
haven't tried Writer yet, but wouldn't be surprised if the same problem
happens. This is a huge fail, makes LO totally useless for me and many
others. Almost all of my writing is scientific/technical, and the graphics I
insert into documents are almost exclusively eps. I have written literally
hundreds of documents that contain thousands of eps figures. Converting
those to bitmaps is a non-starter, not least because of the inherent
limitations of bitmaps. This has been a known problem with LO since about
version 4.2, and several fixes and workarounds have been discussed but so
far nothing has been done that addresses users' needs. Users already have
their own projects and need software that works, not another project.

#2

Understand the appeal for not having to convert, but until a built-in
LibreOffice implementation-- tdf#67464
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67464> --not dependent
on Ghostscript, ImageMagick, or pstoedit external packages is tackled--its
conversion or lousy quality.

But for starters, be sure the eps you are using does not have a preview
(TIFF or BMP), strip it out. That forces a full resolution rendering to the
LO document canvas and on export to PDF.

Or better do a conversion to SVG (or other canvas, PNG if you're OK with
raster) .

Personally, I prefer a combination of Ghostscript's "ps2pdf" utility:

   ps2pdf -dEPSCrop in.eps out.pdf

and Poppler's (from poppler-utils) "pdftocairo" utility:

   pdftocairo -svg out.pdf out.svg

#3

Hi.
A thread on it here.
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Writer-and-EPS-images-td4142814.html#a4142849

Steve

#4

tedc wrote:

Using LibreOffice 5.0.6.2 under CentOS 7.x. Impress can't handle eps
images--output pdf contains only completely unreadable low res
bitmaps.

Rather than exporting as PDF, have you tried File > Export and select EPS for "Save as type"?