Eps files being weird

I am trying to place an eps file into my image.
it keeps saying that the eps file is a linked file.
I have placed it in, i have dragged it in, what do I do to make this eps file not a linked file?
THanks so much!!

i wil try, thanks. I think my eps file was corrupted, i worked it out but i will try your advice as well.
much thanks!!

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Adobe Bridge & .EPS files

After renaming and sorting all 5-10 gigs of my vector artwork last night, by catergory/style and launching Bridge to start keywording that particular Main folder (Vector Art) of all my design materials to get more organized, I ran into an issue!! While weeding thru my various clipart packages and downloaded stuff over the years, I assumed that keeping the EPS instead of the AI file would be more friendly for any work enviroment within bridge and cross platform but was wrong apparently. So, I tossed all the AI files that came with the EPS equivalent, without really giving it to much thought. As I start inputing keywords and start trying to assign them to particular image or image groups, I quickly found out that Adobe Bridge doesn't supported the keywording of an EPS file and didn't apply any keep words to any files with the .eps extension.
Is there something I am missing here?
After thinking for a minute, I should have done the opposite and keep the AI's and tossed the EPS files, being AI is a native Adobe software and Bridge would handle these alot better, but by then again It took me 4 hours to catergorize all the vector art into subfolders and do a little renaming.
To save from having to retreive all the deleted AI files via Time Machine, what should I do? >>>>>>
1. Use Illustrator and actions to manually convert all the vector art to .AI
2. Find a 3rd party program (if there is one) that could make the conversion quick and easy for me so I can get back to keywording
3. Restore the original mess of a folder and start all over and keep the AIs instead of the EPSs
4. or, look for a setting within Bridge to actually let me tag my EPS files
5. none of the above
Any suggestions on workflow or software to quickly and painlessly accomplish would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Again
Drew

Any suggestions on workflow or software to quickly and painlessly accomplish
would be greatly appreciated
For those questions you will be better of in the dedicated Illustrator
forum, just check the path above this forum to adobe forums and search for
Illustrator to drop this problem.
And for some reason it is not possible to add metadata or keywords to EPS
files unless you have converted them using Illustrator. But I don't know the
correct settings for the conversion. Just tried one and saved as EPS in
Illustrator CS5. It then is possible to add metadata but the file size also
from 250 kb to 1,5 MB !

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.

Weird CS4 error when saving eps files on a Mac: "...specified files already exist in the target location"

Hi There,
All 3 workstations in our studio are experiencing weird file behavior when re-saving eps files from Illustrator.
Basically Illustrator creates a new file in addition to the original and adds a "-01.eps" onto the file name. If you re-save your original, Illustrator brings up a dialogue box that states:
Some of the specified files already exist in the target location. The files marked below will be replaced:
filename.eps
filename-01.eps
We've been deleting the "-01.eps" files each time but it's becoming tedious. The behaviour occurs when re-saving an eps file to a server or the desktop.
All machines are new Quad-core MacPros running:
- Leopard 10.5.8
- Illustrator CS4 14.0.0
We've checked for Illustrator updates from within Illustrator but we seem to be running the latest version.
Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?
Any help or pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ben

Thanks for the reply.
The error occurs when we save the document but if we choose save as, "Use Artboards" seems to be unchecked so not sure if this issue is related or not. Will re-save the document using save as then see if the issue persists.
Why do we still use eps?
Basically because we've found it to be much more compatible. Our entire logo library is in eps format (18 years worth) partly because it was previously the only format to use and partly because it allows account managers to send logos to clients, printers, TV stations etc and not involve the studio (saving out an eps version).
Although "Create PDF compatible file" is a good idea, we've encountered costly issues with colours and images - especially if the recipient is using old CS software, non-Adobe software or is using some kind of hardware RIP. We now just go with what we know works.
But I do find saving eps versions of everything to be a bit painful. In fact, I've always found Illustrator in general to be a bit painful when compared with Photoshop or AfterEffects. Illustrator seems like it's been developed by a different company some times!
Cheers, and thanks for the help.

Weird Thumbnail Dimensions for EPS Files in Bridge CS4

Using Preferences> Thumbnails, I have set Bridge CS4 to show "Dimensions" as one of the metadata items. It works correctly for PSD, NEF, and TIF files, but not EPS files. For example, a PSD file may show dimensions of 1006 x 583 pixels. But he same image converted to EPS format shows the dimensions as 207 x 120. Why is this not also showing as 1006 x 583? Is Bridge reading dimensions of the embedded preview image? And, if so, why is it not reading the dimensions of the main image, instead?
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Can you remove XMP data from .eps files in Illustrator-CS5.5?

Background:
I'm using font software called Typetool 3 and Illustrator CS5.5.
I am using these on Windows 7, 64 bit.
This is entry level font software released by Fontlab.
This software accepts artwork through the .eps file format in both theory and practice.
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What determines how a PDF or EPS file is opened??????

Hi I was wondering if anyone can tell, what determines how a PDF or EPS is opened in Photoshop.
If I open a PDF in photoshop, the first thing that pops up is the settings for which you want it to open. i.e., color mode, resolution, you choose what you want and then open.
I always thought that how the file was created determines the initial settings in which photoshop displays in that little dialogue box. (for example, if I open an illustrator eps file that I created in photoshop, it always prompts the correct settings (300dpi, CMYK) I click open and it works great.
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>Hi I was wondering if anyone can tell, what determines how a PDF or
>EPS is opened in Photoshop.
Nothing, really. EPS provides this info openly in its header, but it is not always right, so PS cannot even assume it would be correct to use that info. For PDF it's a different story. PDF is a container format that can contain any number of items in mixed resolutions and colorspaces, hence PS cannot assume anything. Likewise, you can have multiple pages, links, multimedia content, all of which may influence the result upon display or rasterization...
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We have been having real problems with some (but not all) .eps files (both supplied and created in-house) in IDCS4. When viewed in Illustrator, the images are fine, but after the images have been imported into IDCS4, the problems begin. There is nothing obvious that is the same across all the images that IDCS4 has a problem with, apart from gradient fills.
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**UPDATE**
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EPS file placed within INDD art shows crop marks when exported to PDF

Hi Friends -
I have a INDD art file I'm working on, within which I placed an EPS image. Upon exporting the INDD art to PDF, the document has what appear to be crop marks surrounding the EPS image. This is not where the image should be cut, and these marks are being shown in a functional part of the design. Here is a screenshot of one corner of the EPS; the other 3 corners have identical marks:
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- MS Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
- InDesign CS5.5 Version 7.5.3
- Marks are generated during export process/conversion to PDF; they are not visible in InDesign.
- EPS file does not create these crop marks when placed into another INDD file and exported using the same process as above.
- No other elements of the INDD file have similar marks displayed after export.
Any help with where I might find the setting in INDD to turn this OFF would be greatly appreciated!
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That was probably the most expeditious reply I've ever received in a forum.
Anyhow, the crop marks are not part of the actual EPS image. Opening the EPS file in PS or AI reveals no stray crop marks so, unless the marks are somehow part of the EPS settings rather than a visible element of the image, I think it has something to do with INDD and its settings. To confirm, I did place this EPS in another INDD document and an export procedure utilizing the same steps does not reproduce the crop marks.

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I have a series of six violin method books (Kaleidoscopes for Violin) that I created in InDesign CS2.
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The EPS issue is a remarkably serious flaw in a software package that costs many hundreds of dollars, especially given that I posted the same problem in response to the release of InDesign CS5. A response (and, I daresay, a software update that fixes the problem) would be greatly appreciated.
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Many thanks for your advice; I re-defined the printer presets and now it works fine.
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Whenever I attempt to insert an EPS file (possibly other image types as well) into a Publisher document I get a prompt asking for what type of file the source is and then this error:
"An
error occurred while importing this file."
This is running as a Citrix Published Application running on Server 2008 R2 and I've found that this does not happen outside of Citrix. If i login directly to the server via RDP or right from the console I do not get this issue. I've posted in
the Citrix Forums and it looks like this is something to do with MS Publisher and not being able to use the Explorer shell.
http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=307437
Researched this error and found this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224744 (This is unacceptable since the file needs to be in EPS format to keep functionality)
There was another article but I cannot find it for the life of me at this time but it suggested that you uninstall and reinstall Office or repair Office.
I did both with no luck.
I am able to get Citrix to open up publisher with the shell by initiating this command:
explorer.exe /root,D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSPUB.exe
With this command firing up Publisher I'm able to import EPS files with no problem. However I cannot pass an argument to this command so double clicking documents in our Citrix portal do not open up the document but rather just opens up a blank Publisher
file. So this isn't a good "solution."
I should not have to make this command to just be able to import images as a workaround. Anyone run into this in their Citrix environments? Microsoft, do you have anything that can be tweaked with Publisher to allow this to work as normal in
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I was able to get a workaround for this. I made a .cmd and put this into it:
if [%1]==[] explorer2.exe /root,D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSPUB.exe %1
if [%1] NEQ [] "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSPUB.exe" %1
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Illustrator CS4 - frequently generates corrupt EPS files that will not parse

I have used many versions of Illustrator prior to and including the CS lines. I am currently running CS4 and this is the first time I have experienced this issue. Approximately half of my EPS formatted illustrator files will not parse. I use Quark Xpress 7 for my layout (never liked any of the Indesign programs). If I try to generate a PDF with my CS4 generated EPS files placed at least 60% of the time the placed file will corrupt the PDF export resulting in no PDF being generated.
Further to this PDF export issue, if I attempt to parse the same EPS file into Photoshop, Photoshop will give me the error message "Could not complete your request because Photoshop was unable to parse the PostScript" and it will abort the attempt to open the file.
Anyone else having Illustrator EPS file issues?
Background info (if needed) Dual 2.0 Ghz, PowerMac G5, 8 gb RAM, running Tiger 10.4.11
I have attached a sample Illustrator file that will not Parse. It will open in Illustrator but not parse into Photoshop or if placed in Quark will not parse and allow for a PDF to be exported.

Thanks for taking the time to write Steve.
I understand that I can drag and drop between programs. Ultimately, when attempting to parse an EPS in photoshop I am merely doing it to confirm that the EPS is indeed corrupt.
As mentioned previously, I predominately use Quark Xpress for my page layout program and until I installed CS4 I have had zero complications with using EPS files. Now I quite commonly can not export PDFs due to corrupt EPS files.
My question to the public is I am alone in this glitch or do others experience the same issue. My first thoughts are that CS4 has a glitch and I should be expecting an update in the near future. But, if I am the only person suffering from this issue than maybe I should be looking at my own software.

Placed EPS file becoming pixelated?

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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?
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Name of EPS file

Hi
I am printing from Oracle Forms. I am able to set the printer name using DESNAME. Is there any possibility of naming the .eps file as I wish to use the name in some pre-printing processing? At the moment it seems like the filename is a series of numbers but they don't seem sequential and I do not see any other parameters in SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY that would enable me to change the name.
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Hi Skullmaker, thanks for taking the time to reply. It is certainly very kind of you. However, there is most definitely a problem. I am pretty familiar with Illustrator and I know how to "repair" broken image Iinks. The problem stems from the linked image file name being in Japanese. For some reason, when I open the AI to which the images are linked, the AI file doesn't look for the Japanese file name, but instead reproduces some garbled name for the file.
Now, if the AI file only had two or three eps files linked to it, I could simply "repair" the links using a method or trial and error. It would (hopefully) be apparent which of the linked images belonged in each space. However, I have several AI files to work with, each of which has several eps files linked to it with Japanese characters in the name.Trial and error would be nearly impossible.
Today I was able to get PDF versions of the AI files from my counterpart in Japan. Therefore I can at least use the PDF file to tell which images belong in which spot. Now it is just a matter of renaming all of the eps files and then "repairing" the links. A time consuming task for sure, but not impossible.
I would still love to figure out a more elegant solution . . . or, if there isn't one, I would be somewhat satisified to hear that from someone from Adobe.
I do think the jpg I attached to my earlier reply pretty clearly demonstrates the problem. However, perhaps I have over estimated my communication skills.

PS CS5 not saving preview for EPS files

I'm running a trial version of CS5 Design Premium on a brand new Core i5 iMac with 8GB RAM and running SL 10.6.3. So far, I haven't noticed any major glitches, except for the following:
When I save an image as EPS, I usually choose the standard Mac 8 bit preview. This way, when bringing it into Quark, I can see the image. On my previous iMac, in CS3 and Leopard 10.5.8, this worked fine when importing into Quark 7.5.
Now, however, when importing into Quark 8.1.6, the EPS does NOT show a preview. It even indicates that no preview is included in the "Import Picture" window before bringing it in, even though I can see the "preview" in the little preview window. All I get in Quark is a gray box with the filename written inside. This is a bit bizarre!
Then I thought, maybe it's a Quark issue. I tried importing the same EPS file into my old iMac using Quark 7.5 and it does the same thing - no preview.
What's even more strange is that I took an old EPS which HAS a viewable preview, and resaved it (after a resize), and changed no other settings. The preview no longer shows up in Quark. Boom! Gone! Brand new files behave the same way.
Another thing I tried: I saved it using a TIFF preview. That seemed to work, although the preview looked very low-quality. That might work in a pinch, but it doesn't solve the problem of why my EPS files are not saving previews even though they are supposed to be included with the basic Mac Preview options.
Resaving the EPS as TIF also works fine, but again, doesn't solve the problem.
Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Why do you keep bringing up PICT previews? We have made it clear that we aren't using the standard Macintosh preview. The problem persists when using the Macintosh (JPEG) preview.
Or are you implying that the JPEG preview is actually a PICT preview?
And TIFF and JPEG previews have always differed in how the appear on screen. If they didn't there wouldn't really be any reason for having both, would there? And since they look different in Illustrator and InDesign, can you wander down the hall and ask the guys working on those Adobe products why their code is displaying your code differently than you want it to?
I have no problem with PICT being dead. I'm sure no one else on the forum does either. Your software is the one using it. What I am asking is that you help us with a REAL solution rather than debating it with us. We all have plenty of experience in what we do. I've been using Photoshop since version 1, and I'm sure many of the others weighing in here have too. We know what has worked in your product in the past, and we know what we need it to continue to do for us now and in the future. If Adobe is going to give us forums to spotlight issues, then Adobe should also listen and act. Eight months of debating the existence of PICT files is a waste of everyone's time. Please just fix the code so that when I choose a JPEG preview I get a JPEG preview that shows up in Illustrator, InDesign, or whatever. If a normal JPEG shows up, then a JPEG preview attached to an EPS file should as well. It's not rocket science. And it's not a PICT. It's a JPEG.
I appreciate your assistance in helping all of us with this frustrating and production draining issue. If I sound a bit frazzled it is because it is 7:30 PM and I should be at home with my family, but my jacked up previews caused me to use one of the suggested workarounds, which turned a job that should have taken 20 minutes into a 3 hour adventure. Now let's multiply that out over the last 8 months... And multiply that by everyone affected. I'm sure that adds up to a lot more lost time than what would be required to fix the bug and issue an update.

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