Wednesday, June 12, 2013

How to create vectored eps file from LibreOffice Draw!

While writing papers in Latex, we need to have vectored eps files for good quality figures. LibreOffice Draw does not have any option to save as eps in the "save as" list. However, you can export a figure (or selection to avoid white space around the figure) as eps file.

Following are the steps:
  • Create a new figure or  open existing figure in LibreOffice Draw. You can even open Microsoft Office figures in LibreOffice Draw. 
  • Select the figure you want to save. Most of the times we want to save the whole figure, so we select all (ctrl+A). If you do not select the figure, LibreOffice Draw will store it as a page with unnecessary white space around the figure.
  • Click File->Export; a window will pop-up
  • At the bottom, from "File type", select eps format.
  • Check the "Selection" box.
  • Save at your desired location by clicking on save
*Note: For some figures the LibreOffice may have problem predicting size during exporting. It happened to me with tables without boundary. Try adding boundaries to avoid that. You can select line color white if you do not want the border to be visible.

No comments:

Post a Comment