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Whatever happened to EPS files?
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Once upon a time, EPS files were the darling of the digital age - smallish high quality vector files which could be produced from any application (via Print/Laserwriter 8). They were the file type of choice for anything containing graphics.
Now, it is very difficult to produce EPS files under OS X. Appleworks does not have this as a Save as... option unlike its predecessor ClarisDraw. What's going on?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by philm:
<strong>Once upon a time, EPS files were the darling of the digital age - smallish high quality vector files which could be produced from any application (via Print/Laserwriter 8). They were the file type of choice for anything containing graphics.
Now, it is very difficult to produce EPS files under OS X. Appleworks does not have this as a Save as... option unlike its predecessor ClarisDraw. What's going on?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">PDF is what's going on.
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Yeh PDF=EPS for the 21st century.
The latest versions of Adobe Postsript (the program that runs all high end printing devices from Laser Printers to Rips & Digital presses) now use PDF as the native file format instead of EPS. The big change really came when Adobe showed it was serious about PDF and changed the Illustrator (.ai) file format from being EPS based to PDF based.
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I see the great strides may by PDFs, but they are nowhere near as manageable as EPS files for import/insert/placement in other documents.
Phil
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well, PDF = EPS is a little wrong...
it should be:
PDF > EPS... as you can make PDF files with EPS "parts" Many of us still use EPS files every day. Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator pays the bills... Illustrator exports to EPS files... and Quark likes EPS files...
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yep - anyone in the graphic design, and publishing fields still use EPS's (aswell as TIFFs) many times a day. EPS files are pretty much useless for consumers though (as they're large, and look awful onscreen - and have no benefits for the average user) - so that would expain their dissaperance from AppleWorks. I really can't think of any use for exporting AppleWorks draw files as EPS...
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EPS files require a license to generate, no? That would certainly keep them from being very visible. (har har)
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nathan Adams:
<strong>yep - anyone in the graphic design, and publishing fields still use EPS's (aswell as TIFFs) many times a day. EPS files are pretty much useless for consumers though (as they're large, and look awful onscreen - and have no benefits for the average user) - so that would expain their dissaperance from AppleWorks. I really can't think of any use for exporting AppleWorks draw files as EPS...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">OK Nathan, suppose I want to generate a flow chart in Appleworks and use it in a report written in MS Word. EPS would be great in this scenario.....?
Phil
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