<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Dear all, LibreOffice is facing a regression with regards to the quality/rendering of EPS graphics in LO 4.2&4.3 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81592">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81592</a>). While the rendering quality of EPS in LO 4.0/4.1 was 'production quality', the rendering in 4.2 & 4.3 regressed and is unusable for publishing. The issue exists in rendering on screen, printing, PDF export as well as with existing documents or newly inserted EPS graphics. From my viewpoint, it is a terrible bug, because the graphics of statistical software (Stata, SPSS) always showed best quality when exported as EPS and inserted in LibreOffice. All existing documents and prepared EPS graphics are not really usable anymore on 4.2.x and later. Hence, I am stuck with LO 4.1.x which is EOL and less performant and stable (and is missing a few important features) than 4.2.x and 4.3.x. Hence, I seriously hope that this bug can be fixed for the last version of the 4.2 line, which is version 4.2.7. I approach the QA list for this, because the bug has been tested and confirmed so far only on Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.04 and I would like to kindly ask you to perform tests on EPS quality with new distribution versions, such as Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10Beta as well as Fedora, Debian or others. For the generation of the EPS representation in LibreOffice, the library pstoedit is used and it is possible that newer versions of pstoedit give better output. I would be glad if you could try to reproduce the bug following the steps in the bug description. Please also try the pstoedit command and instructions as given by Caolan in comment 4. I hope that someone finds a solution for this regression bug. Thanks a lot, Gerry </body> </html>