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Michael Shavel

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Apr 6, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/6/98
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Hi

I have an EPS file that I am trying to open with various image processing
applications and am getting messages saying the application does not open
that version of the file format (EPSF in this case). When I view the file
that does NOT open I see this in the header:

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%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2
%%Creator: QuarkXPress(R) 3.32
%%Title: 3K540030 (Page 1)
%%CreationDate: 3/25/98 1:59 PM
%%DocumentProcSets: QuarkXPress_EPS_3.32 1.0 0
%%DocumentSuppliedProcSets: QuarkXPress_EPS_3.32 1.0 0
%%DocumentProcessColors: Black
%%DocumentData: Binary
%%LanguageLevel: 1
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 168 81
%%EndComments
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Then I create a new EPSF file in photoshop and view the header and I see this:

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%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 3.0.4x91
%%Title: test.eps
%%CreationDate: 4/6/98 5:05 PM
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 504 360
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 504 360
%%SuppressDotGainCompensation
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%EndProlog
%%BeginSetup
%%EndSetup
%ImageData: 504 360 8 3 1 504 2 "beginimage"
_______________


I see that the file that would NOT open says "%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2"
this: that is is version 1.2 of EPSF. While the file that will open says:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0:

My question is, is it likely that my problem in not being able to open the
first eps file (EPSF version 1.2) is because the version of postscript is
so old it is no longer reconized? This seems odd if it is the case... I
assume that postscript would be backwards compatible.

Any help/ input in this situation is very much appreciated.

Thanks

Mike Shavel
msh...@erols.com

John Doherty

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Apr 6, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/6/98
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In article <mshavel-0604...@130.9.16.207>, msh...@erols.com
(Michael Shavel) wrote:

| I have an EPS file that I am trying to open with various image processing
| applications and am getting messages saying the application does not open
| that version of the file format (EPSF in this case)

Most image-editing apps (e.g., Photoshop) have only limited ability to
open EPS files. It appears that the abilities of yours do not extend to
opening EPS files from QuarkXPress (or at least not this one).

So you need to turn your QXP EPS into something your image-editor can open.
It's hard to suggest what you should do without knowing what you have to
work with.

If it was me, I might distill the EPS to PDF with Distiller, open the PDF
with Illustrator or Freehand, save it as an AI-format EPS, then open that
with Photoshop. Sort of roundabout, I know, but it will work.

Or I might just send the EPS off to our imagesetter's RIP, which can be
configured to redirect its output to TIFF files, then open the TIFF.

Or I might place the EPS on a page in any app that can place an EPS, then
convert it to TIFF with the mac Print2Pict print driver, which can produce
TIFFs as well as PICTs.

Good luck.

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