[Uml-user] Can't export diagram to EPS file

[Timo Steuerwald]

Hi all!
Has Umbrello an external dependency to a command line tool for exporting
to EPS? - This would explain why it works on the desktop PC, but not on
my laptop.

Cheers
Timo

Am Donnerstag, den 09.04.2009, 16:45 +0200 schrieb Andi Fischer:
> Timo Steuerwald wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 (Umbrello 2.14). On my laptop I have the problem
> > that I can't export a diagram to a eps file.
> > Everytime I try to do this, I get the german message "Beim Exportieren
> > des Bildes ist ein Fehler aufgetreten: Beim speichern des Diagramms
> > in /somepath/somefilename.eps ist ein Problem aufgetreten".
> > Which means more or less "A error appeared during export of the image: A problem
> > appeared during saving of the diagram to /somepath/somefilename.eps".
> >
> > Afterwards, the file is created but seems to have invalid content.
> >
> > I'm wondering, because on another PC with the same Umbrello version
> > (also Ubuntu 8.10) it works.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Timo
> >   
> Hi Timo,
> As a work around try this one:
> on a console do  $ umbrello --export png  <path to your model xmi>
> I haven't tried "--export eps", but it is worth to try.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Andi