DCS EPS file is white?

So I have been given an EPS file that I cannot open in illustrator... the message says 'DCS EPS files cannot be opened or embedded....'
I just looked that up and read that photoshop can open DCS EPS files, It opens in Photoshop but its pure white?
I know the logo is meant to be white but cannot see any transparency? Is there something I am missing...

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DCS EPS 2.0 files not printing spot colors

I know that PMS colors have been changed with CS6 using lab color as the basis to preview colors, but I've been getting this problem printing DCS EPS 2.0 files from Photoshop in Illustrator. It does not matter if I print in CS5 or CS6 the same error occurs. I'll try to explain the process I'm using the best I can.
I create a multi color spot channel DCS EPS 2.0 file in Photoshop utilizing PMS colors. I then link that image into Illustrator and add custom registration marks and labeling to print. When I bring in the DCS file the spot colors appear in the swatch palette and are labled as spot colors, however they either come over as CMYK or LAB color in the color mode when you double click the color swatch. This is where it gets weird. When I print the file, the first spot color with a cmyk color mode will print the registration mark and the custom label I made in Illustrator, but it will not print the DCS part of the image. If the next spot color is in LAB color mode it will print as well as the third color that is in CMYK color mode will print. It seems to only effect the color being printed before the LAB color and then doesn't have an issue after that. My fix has been to manually set all color modes to either CMYK or LAB color and that solves the problem, but it seems like a bug becuase it's only an issue effecting the DCS file and not other elements in illustrator that have the same swatch color applied. For the record I've done prints with 2 printers and a pdf printer and they all have the same issue.
This may be something that cannot be fixed, but I hope my bringing it to light will help some people realize why some of their spot colors aren't printing.

No... Believe me, I suggested, and would almost always suggest high resolution PDF for any printing. Like I mentioned, I've basically always printed with PDF's but, the company he's getting printing done through apparently requires EPS. I tried another set of settings when saving, so we'll see if it works and they accept it.
My main question was why the file was coming out black and white after I save it when it's blatantly in color - and reopens in Photoshop in full color.

Illustrator no longer displays the white channel of a placed DCS/.eps.

I should have spoke up sooner because I thought this would get fixed pretty quickly but I just upgraded to CS6 and it's still broken. I use Photoshop to generate color separations for screen printing. We do simulated spot process which means we print the prodomient colors of the image rather than gambling that CMYK will work. We print white because garments are often any color you can imagine. So I use the DCS.eps format alot. I place this linked in Illustrator. Up untill CS3 this worked fine. I skipped 4, but upgraded to 5. Five doesn't display the white channel. (These files are Multichannel mode, each channel is a Spot channel. saved as dcs/eps) I have not tried output. It may print fine. The thing is I end up with a client perched on my shoulder like a buzzard and if the white parts of the design or the white channel/screen isn't their to support the top/upper colors I look like I don't know what I'm doing, or I left the white out, etc. I've been in both offset printing and screen printing and T&T (trinkets and trash) for a long time. Messing up paper is one thing. Messing up an Under Armor or Nike or you name it garment is a whole different ballgame so they are pretty tense when it comes to what they see. I already have to explain that it looks pixelated and rough because it's an 8 bit preview but will print sharp.
What are the odds of getting this fixed? It worked like a charm for years (Illustrator 4 to CS3)
Any help with this would be appreciated.

Evidently, Illustrator is creating its own preview, rather than using the one embedded in the EPS.
Create a Multichannel file containing several spot color channels. Make the images of the various spot channels overlap each other. Select white as the color for one of the spot channels. Set each channel's Solidity at 100%. Save as DCS2 with 8-bit TIF preview.
Import the DCS2 file into Corel Draw. Select the Place As EPS option, and it displays the dithered 8-bit composite preview embedded in the EPS, and the spot white channel shows.
If you import the very same file into Illustrator, it's as if Illustrator interprets the content of the EPS (i.e.; a stack of grayscale images) and displays its own preview as if Overprint Preview were turned on. In other words, Illustrator's "preview" of the file seems to act as if you had:
1. Saved the DCS2 file as multifile.
3. Imported the individual grayscale separation files.
4. Applied spot color Swatches to them and set each of them to overprint.
5. Turned on Overprint Preview.
Illustrator knows nothing of individual ink opacity. So as Illustrator's Overprint Preview always does, the white image (being set to overprint) disappears. Note that's not the only difference. The other separation images also display as overprinting, so areas of overlap change color, despite their "Solidity" (opacity) having been set to 100% in Photoshop.
Pretty much the same thing occurs if you save as PS CMYK with spot color channels.
If you place the image (either the DCS or the PS) in Illustrator and print separations to the Adobe PDF virtual printer, you will see that the spot white separation does print, and its image overprints the other seps, as it should. The problem is getting a reasonable preview to show your customer. One way to do that is to print a composite PDF from Photoshop and place that into Illustrator, just to serve as a temporary preview for layout purposes.
I'm on Windows these days, so don't know if there are caveats on MacOS regarding "printing" to PDF.
Just more of Adobe's "cross application integration" of these CS bundles.
JET

InDesign adding a white stroke around element in .EPS file after export

I am trying to place an .EPS file over another image file (background is not white). It does not matter in which manner I place, copy or insert the file. Upon export to high quality .pdf (both interactive and print), there appears to be a while halo or stroke around one element in the .EPS file. The .EPS file is a logo with a blue box and writing next to it. The writing is fine, but the blue box has the stroke… so it is not the entire file element. Very strange. I have never seen this before and someone else testing the file does not have the same issue. Any thoughts?

A screen shot would be helpful....

Gradient white lines in .eps file

Hi there,
I designed a vector in Adobe Illustrator CS6, but when saved as an .eps file, white vertical lines appear in my gradient.
What is happening? I've tried rasterizing the vector at 300 PPI with anti-aliasing, but the edges look jagged (but I really want to keep it as a vector anyway)
Does anyone have any idea what I could do?
I don't know whether it's relevant, but I'm using process colours (but that's only because I couldn't get spot colours to work properly).
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AlvinKeegan wrote:
The lines appear if I place the file in Adobe Photoshop. If I open the EPS file in Adobe Illustrator though, the gradient is as smooth as a baby's behind.
of course it is. When you open this EPS in Illustrator, you don't really open an EPS, but the AI part Illustrator embedded into the EPS file in the first place.
Photoshop is not a suitable tool for "checking" an EPS file
EPS ist not suitable for most modern workflows either. In case you really need this for transferring your logo to Photoshop (or any other Creative Suite app), simply save an AI file (with PDF compatibility).
In case you need the EPS for exchange with other software, please tell us which options you chose on saving the EPS.

InDesign CS3 "White Box" when printing with linked Photoshop EPS files

This problem has been covered before, but never really resolved:
Robert Levine, "InDesign CS3 Erratic White Box Phenomenon with Placed Photoshop EPS files" #1, 1 Apr 2008 11:05 am
Now, I'm aware that we should no longer be using EPS files. I wholeheartedly agree. But until we can convince the department to change to another format (namely PSD or TIFF) for our vast library of images, I need a workaround.
It seems that setting the clipping path for each linked image to "Photoshop Clipping Path" resolves this issue. So I tried writing an AppleScript that would find each linked Photoshop EPS and set it's clipping path to "Photoshop clipping path", but it didn't work for me (my expertise with AppleScript is basically nil.)
Can anyone assist with the creation of this script? Or does anyone have a better suggestion for solving or working around the Photoshop EPS erratic white box printing problem?
Thanks!

>Why??????????
Because they've got zillions of EPS and have no time to resave them all and because it
b should
work even if Buko doesn't like EPS...
(Your vendetta against EPS takes on strange proportions. Were you bitten as a child by a rabid EPS and have sworn to wipe them out? Must be an interesting story behind it ;) )
Brian, this script seems to do the job with one very important caveat: I see no way of finding out which path is active in the EPS (in case that more than one). So the script simply activates the first in the list.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
set aDoc to active document
set allLinks to links of aDoc
repeat with n from 1 to (count allLinks)
set aLink to item n of allLinks
if link type of aLink is "EPS" then
   set anEPS to parent of aLink
   tell clipping path of anEPS
    set ePaths to photoshop path names
    if (count ePaths) > 0 then
     set clipping type to photoshop path
     set applied path name to item 1 of ePaths
    end if
   end tell
end if
end repeat
end tell

How to create a eps file from illustrator?

I am new to illustrator and new to creating logos for print, I usually only do it for the web. I am creating a logo for my team so that it can be printed onto a jacket. I created an all white logo because the jacket is black. I was asked to send an eps file. I created the logo in illustrator and saved it as an eps file and as a pdf file thinking the printer could use the pdf for viewing. When I open the pdf file, the only thing that's there is a soccer ball, my text and a few other things are missing. When I open the saved eps file, the same thing, I have to go to select all to see all my other stuff in the eps file. How do I save my file as eps and know that it's attaching everything I have within the illustrator file and how can I view the logo as a pdf? Any help you can give would be greatly appeciated, thanks so much!

How did you similate the black color?
Since Illustrator does not have a background, you must create one with the rectangle tool, drag out a rectangle the size of the document and then move it to the back. That rectangle can then be filled with black.
Also look in your layers panel and see what you have for objects. You can select them there and move them up or down to bring them forward or backward on the document. It can also make it easier to select when the object is below others.

Position of eps-files in anchored frame

Hello, I'm sorry but the subject was too large to put it in the subject-field.
Subject:
position of eps-files (Mac Os 9, Illustrator 9.0, preview tiff black/white)
is not correct after saving eps-files (preview macintosh black/white)
I want to upgrade from Apple Mac 9.0 to PC. All my Framemaker-files (6.0)
must be translated to Framemaker 8.0 (PC-version).
When I open the old Framemaker files, there is only a problem with the
graphics (read: the preview of the graphics in Framemaker 8.0). The result
is: grey boxes in the anchored frames. I thought when I save the old
eps-files (Illustrator 9 for Mac, preview Macintosh Black+white) to
eps-files with TIFF preview, that the problem will be solved. When I open
the framemaker-files on PC, then there are a few graphics correct
(Framemaker displays all the graphics correct on pc). But, there are a lot
of graphics in anchored frames who lost their right coordinates in the
anchored frame (example: the x-position of a graphic is -25 cm en the
y-position of a graphic is 7.9 cm). Result: I cannot see a graphic in the
anchored frame because the coordinates were changed and because their are
outside the frame (their are in the frame, but the graphic is outside the
border of the anchored frame).
When I use the old eps-files then the position is correct, but there is no
preview available of the graphic in Framemaker 8 (in Framemaker 6.0 for
Mac, there is a preview of the graphic).
Are there people who has this problem too in the past? Who can give me
suggestions to solve this problem or give me other tips to solve this
problem.

Hi Jesse
I'm afraid we probably can't help much. I asked our guy and he said:
I thought that issue had more to do with upgrading Adobe Illustrator. When you save an EPS it includes a BoundingBox comment that defines the area of the page that the figure occupies in the artwork:
%%BoundingBox: LLx LLy URx URy
LLx and LLy are the coordinates of the lower left corner of the figure. URx and URy are the coordinates of the upper right corner of the figure.
When FrameMaker imports an EPS it reads the BoundingBox comment to get the size and position of the figure on the page, and therefore to compute the translation and scaling required in the PostScript output to put the figure where you want it.
The impression I got was that when you updated the EPS figure FrameMaker didn't always refresh the BoundingBox info.
The later version of Illustrator seemed to save files with a different BoundingBox. As a result there was a mis-match between the actual BoundingBox and what FrameMaker recorded.
The solution for us was to simply re-import the figure. I never wrote a script to solve that problem.

Placed bitmap eps files into PSD files has no transparency.

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EPS File and FCP/Motion

Ladies/Gentlemen, I have my Logo in a EPS Format and I am trying to keep the Transperancy. I tried exporting out of Photoshop and Illustrater as a Tiff file with no success. I also tried Jpeg , but ofcourse I get a white background. Can anyone let me know how to prep or convert an EPS file to work in FCP and Motion.
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When saving a TIFF out of Photoshop, the second save dialog box offers the options for transparency, however this is based on that your logo is on a transparent background, not a white background.

Placed EPS file becoming pixelated?

Hi, I have imported an EPS file into Indesign. When I come to export this InDesign file as a PDF the EPS is pixelated on the PDF? It looks fine in InDesign when I view it in overprint preview, but when it is PDF'd it becomes pixelated?? Also, the document will only be shown as a PDF, but it seems to have a slightly cloudy appearence to it. ( like a white frosted effect over it) The full colour is restored on the PDF when I click on Advanced / Print Production / Output Preview. Is there a way of always having it to these settings? Thanks in advance, Andy

can you start by telling us the operating system (and version) you are using, along with the version of indesign you are using?
how is the pdf being made? is it being exported to pdf and if so, what options are being selected? what happens when the options are changed?
is the EPS a photoshop file or an illustrator file? is it RGB, CMYK or LAB? what happens when you safe the EPS as something else and place the file?
put simply, from your description of the situation i can't nail it down to one thing in particular, so try playing with the above options and see if it makes any difference, and if so, what you did that solved the problem (if it gets solved of course).

Linking Photoshop EPS Files with Clipping Paths

I'm running InDesign CS4 6.0.3 on a dual 2GHz G5 with Mac OS X 10.5.7.
We have a workflow that involves Photoshop EPS files being placed in InDesign with the object's clipping path set to Photoshop Path. If the link is updated or relinked, InDesign no longer restricts the image to the boundaries of the path—either on screen or on export to PDF—even though choosing Object -> Clipping Path -> Options still shows the type set to Photoshop Path. The only way that I have found to get the clipping path to fully apply to the image is to change the type from Photoshop Path to None and back to Photoshop Path, all while the Preview check box is on. I tried different combinations of turning the Apply Photoshop Clipping Path option on and off at the time of initial placement and at the time of relinking with no effect on this behavior.
Assuming that using a format other than EPS and using transparency rather than clipping paths are not in play at the moment, my questions are:
1. Is this a know issue with InDesign CS4? If so, can we expect a fix soon?
2. Is there anything that can be done on the user side that is less cumbersome than the workaround described above?

@Mark
Photoshop PSD is fine for all raster work. But if you have vector masks, vector shapes or text in the file then saving as PDF would be the better option, you can choose to remove the white background when importing the PDF in the Show Options of the Place Dialog box.
And that's null point anyway, as soon as you open a photoshop EPS file in Photoshop it rasterises everything. So what I said isn't a viable solution for this project. But to keep in mind that PSD will output as raster only and PDF can have transparency and raster + vector data.
Just thought I'd through that out there.

Grayscale eps files still generate color plates

Photos and/or graphics saved in eps format, converted to grayscale mode, are still generating color plates when printing to the RIP.
These files are placed into Quark V8 document and then that document is exported as eps to Distiller to create a pdf which is then placed in a Quark V8 document and printed to the RIP.
Using Photoshop CS2 (V9.02). This creates issues as these files are placed on page layouts that have color and grayscale ads so
I need the grayscale elements to only appear on the black plate. Any suggestions?
Right now I am opening the offending eps files up in Photoshop and saving as tif files, this seems to fix it. However, really need to use the eps format.

Photoshop DCS 2 technically is a bastardized version of EPS that was created by Quark to work around the lack of spot channel support for the EPS format.So not all EPS files do or don't support Spots. Older versions of EPS do support passive transparency within Illustrator, but who bothers to pay attention to those things anyways....
The EPS format does support spot color, just not Photoshops version. I think it could support Spots, but I think they intentionally disabeled it for good reasons.Not sure, don't know, don't care.
Dealing with Multichannnel documents may take a few years of your life, but that is your own decision.
Quark wants to see 4 channels in a EPS file. If you create blank CMY channels in a CMYK document - hence having only the grayscale image reside in the black channel, your issues will go away. This works for EPS and DCS 2 files. Yes its a pain workflow.
Your better choice is to change the file format with a droplet.

Questions regarding: 1) Photoshop and Illustrator softwares 2) .eps file formats.

I'm using a DELL PC running Win7. I have Adobe Photoshop CS (i.e. the first CS version from 2003).
I do not yet have Adobe Illustrator.
I'm creating images for a science publication. It includes graphs, chemical structures, color photos of lab
equipment. I use ChemBioDraw (Cambridgesoft, http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com) to draw chemical
structures and schematics. I've been using MS Powerpoint to draw graphs, make composites of photos, label
panels, and add annotation.
1) The publishing company wants line drawings to be in .eps format. I can copy and paste ChemBioDraw
and Powerpoint figures into Photoshop and then save them in .eps format. They look identical to me when in
.eps format. Will this be suitable for publication?
2) The ChemBioDraw figure file size increases more than tenfold when converted to .eps format. Is this
expected?
3) I have used Photoshop a lot in the past but not for my recent work. My coauthor uses Adobe Illustrator on
a PowerMac G5-9.1. He creates .eps files for line drawings. Are the drawing tools in Illustrator much
better than those in Photoshop? If I get Illustrator will I be able to manipulate photo images (create
composites, add annotation etc.) as I have with Photoshop in the past?
4) My coauthor has sent me some .eps line drawings. When I open them with Photoshop there is a gray and
white checkerboard pattern in the background. I believe this is because the background layer has been
eliminated (the image is in layer 1). Can such a file be opened in a way that the background is solid white?
5) Is there a Windows-compatible software for viewing .eps files that is simpler than Photoshop or Illustrator (i.e. no editing
function)?
Thanks,
Thomas C.

1) No. Photoshop does not create true vector files. Anyone asking for an EPS more than likely wants a true vector EPS file.
2) No way of telling without seeing the results. But it could be perfectly normal. Increased file size in an EPS does not automatically mean there is a problem.
3) Illustrator is a drawing tool. The tools in Illustrator are designed for object-oriented vector drawing. In many respects they are better than Photoshop's tools for those type of projects. And No, you can not edit photographs easily with Illustrator. While you can include photos or raster items within an Illustrator file, Illustrator is not inherently designed to edit iamges at a pixel level.
4) Just add a new layer and fill it with white (or whatever color). Vector EPS files have no background.
5) If you have Photoshop or Illustrator you have Bridge. You can view files in Bridge. I wouldn't know of any other Windows software. It may exist, I simply wouldn't know.

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