EPS is a legacy file format, and quite useless nowadays. As a matter of fact, some applications have revoked their support for EPS because of possible vulnerabilities. Maybe Inkscape also decided to stop supporting it, because on the Wikipedia page about EPS, the application is named as a supporting tool. Hopefully a GIMP user chimes in and gives you a better answer...


Oorspronkelijk geplaatst op Quora: Why doesn't Inkscape (free vector drawing software) include EPS file type open/import capability natively, since it would be a huge enhancement for Inkscape users?"