How can I sanely import EPS images into Visio without losing their features?

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Hey I have been wondering about this for 2 years and have not figured out how to do all the "insane" ways you suggested (even though I tried).

In case you're still wondering. I've settled for https://cloudconvert.com/eps-to-svg

takes 1 second. might not work 10000% with weird vector images but it gets me from matlab to visio quick

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einpoklum

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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einpoklum almost 2 years
I have this (relatively complex I believe) EPS image, which I want to use in an MS Visio 2013 sheet. I've tried:
- 'Insert Picture' directly: No EPS support.
- Inkscape -> EMF -> Insert Picture: Coloring/lighting degraded.
- Inkscape -> WMF -> Insert Picture: Coloring/lighting degraded (differently).
- Inkscape -> SVG -> Insert Picture: Visio gives a bunch of SVG parsing errors and produces the outlines just right - but with no colors.
- Print to PDF any which way -> Insert Picture: No PDF insertion support.
There's only one way which seems to have worked so far:
- New Word Document -> Insert Picture of the EPS -> Save to file -> Visio Insert Object from file This displays correctly, but you need to mess with the document page within word; and resizing by Visio sometimes fails (or worse) and you need to go into Word to resize the EPS, etc. That's just sad.
So is there a sane way to do it?
fixer1234 almost 9 years

Link-only software recommendations tend to be viewed as spam. Please read meta.superuser.com/questions/5329/… for guidance. Key point, explain how to accomplish the result instead of just mentioning the name of a tool.
From Orbonia about 5 years

Noticed the thread was quite old, but Cloud Convert are still up and running and worked well for me. It was very simple, the link supplied above took you to a page that narrowed down your choice to eps upload and svg download. Once uploaded hit the "Start Conversion" button at the bottom of the page.
Ryanman over 3 years

My only complaint with CloudConvert was that it did not retain transparencey