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Answer : Currently what's working best for me on linux is the following: epstopdf foo.eps pdf2svg foo.pdf foo.svg I believe the first command is a wrapper for ghostscript, and the second is a wrapper for calls to the Poppler and Cairo libraries. On ubuntu, they're in the packages texlive-font-utils and pdf2svg. Gradients come out looking right, but don't seem to be editable in inkscape. I tried using inkscape and uniconverter for this purpose, and as of Jan 2013, both seemed broken when tested on an example containing nothig but some very simple line art. Inkscape throws errors and can't open the eps file. Uniconverter crashes. Scribus and sk1 may work, but seem awkward and not really suited for this task. Uniconvertor is currently the most convenient option. It's a command-line tool that shares code with the sK1 Project. You won't have to bother cropping the image in sK1 if you use uniconvertor, so it's more automated. Run it like this: uniconvertor befo...

Answer : OS X comes with DigitalColor Meter: Applications > Utilities > DigitalColor Meter.app It has many options and preferences. command+shift+c will copy the color under the cursor to the clipboard in many different formats. The Mac OS X color picker is extensible. Use Hex Color Picker to add a tab that provides you the configured color in hexadecimal RGB. Just run e.g. TextEdit and press Cmd-Shift-C to open the color picker, or run your standalone program. An even more versatile color picker is Developer Color Picker with many different output formats, one of which is hexadecimal. This is easily done with AppleScript. A complete working example of code is available here.