Effective PPI in .eps files

Anyone know how to extract the effective ppi info in .eps files? Photoshop.eps and Illustrator.eps files are different, so whichever you may have info on would be appreciated. I believe Illustrator generated ones are read as .pdf docs, so it may be impossible.
Thanks,
Seth

absqua wrote:
Why not use the built-in preflight for this? It will get the effective ppi of Illustrator and Photoshop eps's.
Uh-oh. Egg on face and all of that.
I didn't get to see the effective ppi, but if I place this EPS image into InDesign
I get a preflight message 'something is wrong'. If I make the image smaller (and thus increase the ppi), the error disappears.

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tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
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                try
                    set hasPPI to effectivePPI of parent of link i
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Use eps files in a 2' x 6' banner designed in CS2 Illustrator.

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yourself,
If the .eps artwork is vector, there should be no resolution issue (depending on possible raster effects/images contained).
You can see whether it is raster or vector when you select (an embedded version of) it. Vector will appear as other vector artwork.
Is Anti-Aliased ticked in the Edit>Preferences>General?
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**UPDATE**
I have found that If I wrote out the images as .AI files from Illustrator CS2 (Not CS4 or CS4 saving as a CS2 file), the resulting AI file works OK.
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Original and effective ppi

Hey everyone! I would like to ask for some urgent help on Indesign + PDF print document subject.
I prepared a document for offset print (business cards 8,5cm width x 5,5cm height) and it turned out that the pictures were very rastered on the Proof. Like, you could see the raster dots on it.
I checked out my Indesign document again and I found out that the original ppi of the images was 762 and the effective ppi over 1000. I then realised that on Photoshop, I setted by mistake the pictures´s resolution for 300 pixel per cm instead of pixel per inchs!!
I changed that and they have now:
300 pixel per inch resolution
4cm width x 5cm height
and the pixel dimensions are: 472 px width x 591 pixel (height).
In the Indesign document, it appears now:
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between 300 and 400 effective ppi
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My question is, do you guys think I solved the problem that way or should I still change something before I sent it again to print?
The real dimensions of the pictures on the business card should be about 4cm width x 5cm height, so I decided to have them on Photoshop with that dimensions and 300 pixel per inch resolution, so that I don´t have to scale them much on Indesign. Did I do it right?
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The original psd file has, more precisely:
Image size: 14,8 cm width x 21 cm height
Resolution: 762 px / inch ( = 300px/cm )
Pixel dimensions: 4440 x 6300
Then, I changed the Resolution from 762 px / inch to 300 px / inch, and checked in the "resample image" option, which converted the Pixel dimensions into: 1748 x 1418
(Image size remained the same)
This file has good detail quality, it looks sharp.
Then, I drag the layer from this file to a new one, with the image size I need :
Image size: 4cm x 5cm
Resolution: 300 px / inch
Pixel dimensions: 472 x 591
Which makes me think of another question: Are these Pixel dimensions enough for print? Is this psd file good enough to place in Indesign and for print?

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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.
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Hy Memebrs
i'm new in this forum and i have a question about the EPS file.
I search via google how to open EPS in Photo.. Elements 12, becuase I got allways a Error Message. I found a really good Tutorial, about this problem and did it step by step:
open as... choose picture(eps)... chose OPEN AS -TIFF...
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I resize the picture to more than 10000px. After this work the picture looked like ... unsharp.... I saw the pixel and I thounght that was the side-effect of the resize.
I was by a friend, who has the photoshop cs6 software(Stundent...) yesterday. I took the same eps file and opened it in his version. The result is unthinkable...
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I could resize the picture like a skyscraper and it looks alway very great.
What did i wrong?
Sorry for my english
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You didn't do anything wrong.
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Photoshop cs6 opens the real eps file and that's why it looks so much better.
Adobe removed the ability for photoshop elements 11 and 12 to open eps files.
Older versions of photoshop elements will open eps files.

Placed EPS file becoming pixelated?

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Hi
May I join in this discussion? I too am looking for a clear answer to this.
I shall write what I truly understood.
Quartz is the engine behind what you see on the screen and, I believe too, the many wonders to the printers output. Quartz incorporated an engine that understand Postscript and its cousin, PDF. It therefore can read /write PDF, and possibly print .eps files to non-Postscript printers too..
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I had tried printing some .eps files converted from .AI to .eps via Adobe Illustrator. However, what I observed is interesting. I tried importing .eps file into various programs and print. Some programs print much cleaner, better, finer shades. I print to the HP LaserJet 2300.
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@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.

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