EPS Files - Vector

Hello All,
I never used eps files in Premiere Pro before converting and sizing in Photoshop. My client recently set some supers in Illustrator, so I decided to give them a try in CS-3. They imported correctly and everything was ok. I decided to scale them larger with the inherent motion/scale command. I realized they had become rasterized on import...no big deal.
Looking at the help file...I came across this:
"Adobe Premiere Pro continuously rasterizes EPS images, so you can scale these files without pixilation." (you can search eps and find this under import)
So either I am doing it incorrectly or the help file is wrong. After Effects works no problem with vector graphics. Does Premiere Pro CS-3?
Thanks Ray

I was hoping CS-3 had implemented the vector enging the same as in After Effects. Looking at the manual, it seems to suggest it as well.
Downsizing is what I alwas do as well. But hey...if vector is real..I'd rather use that.

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I have many instances during the day when I need to open different types of EPS files - vector-based graphics created in Illustrator and images saved in Photoshop. However, the Finder can't seem to differentiate between the two - it opens an EPS in Illustrator regardless of how it was created.
I know I can change the default launch app in the Get Info window, but is there a way to make the Finder recognize that there's a difference between the two? I've been working on Macs for 15 years, and I don't recall having this problem before...? I'm using the CS3 Suite, if that makes a difference.

on Mac OSX, type and creator are stored in a resource fork, which I'm guessing the clients/stores your getting your eps from don't give you. The finder can't recognize the difference between the 2, however if you open the file in textedit first you will see a line %creator and it will tell you the program the file was created in.
Thats what people use to restore the resource fork. You can use this app
But its missing the extensions in photoshop cs3 so you could rebuild it from the source code, found here
Drop the code in to script editor and then when you are done save it as an app
You will have to find this line in the source
{quote:title=Source:}property gheaders_photoshopeps : {"Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 6", "Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 7", "Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 8", "Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 9", "Creator: MediaBin"}{quote}
and change it to this
{quote:title=Updated Source:}property gheaders_photoshopeps : {"Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 6", "Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 7", "Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 8", "Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 9", *"Creator: Adobe Photoshop Version 10"*, "Creator: MediaBin"}{quote}
you also need to add *"Adobe Illustrator(R) 13"* the same way to both:
*property gheaders_illustrator_nativeversion*
*property gheaders_illustrator_epsversion*
Make sure you use " (quotes) and separate them with a , (comma)
look in text edit at the % creator if you need to change more recent versions of files, of even file types if your more advanced.
Here is the official answer from adobe in bridge, they say it can't be done.
If its a little much for you sorry, its a complex solution.
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edit: I haven't yet tested the updated source code, but it should work, let me know how it goes
Message was edited by: Nathan005

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adriennesaia a écrit:
I "upgraded" from Photoshop Elements... uh... mad old... to Elements 13 when my work computer got "upgraded" to Win8. Now I can't open EPS files which is how I receive collateral from our ad agency. What other vector files will work, and how can I convert EPS to these? Please be gentle if this is a stupid question - I know enough to be dangerous, but I'm not an expert at design by any means. I'm just frustrated because this isn't quite the "dead" file type that Adobe thinks it is. What was the point of upgrading if I'm pretty much left in the lurch?
Thanks to any and all who can help! Much appreciated . -ASI
What's important to understand is that Elements is a 'pixel' editor, not a 'vector' editor. As such, it has very limited 'vector' capacity (fonts, shapes...) What you are missing from older versions is the ability to convert vector items to standard pixel image file. To be able to open and work on eps files, you'd need Adobe Illustrator, which seems overkill for your purpose.
So, your options are:
- to request your ad agency to supply pdf format images instead of eps ones. My guess is that eps is beeing largely superseded by pdf, but I am not sure...
- Use external tools to convert from eps to jpeg; a Google search would return free softwares like Irfanview or web based conversion.
- You might want to keep (or reinstall) older Elements versions just for that purpose.

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%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
%%Creator:ScanVec CASmate(TM) 1.20
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peace
iz

still googling, looks like i need AI. rats.
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Entirely possible. An EPS file is just a container for a PostScript file which can be anything, raster or vector. When printing the contents are passed to the printer without modification by the opening app.

Output many .eps files to single PDF as full size vector art?

Hi Smart Folks,
I'm working in CS4, Mac OS 10.5. I have a large number of .eps files (about 300, created in Ai) which I'd like to output to a single PDF in their full-size vector format (not thumbnails, which seems to be what Bridge output is set up for). Is there a quicker way to do this than manually placing them all in an InDesign doc and PDFing from there?
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(not thumbnails, which seems to be what Bridge output is set up for)
That seems indeed the problem, check also both threads earlier in Bridge and Illustrator but I'm afraid not with THE solution. Also drop a feature request for this at Adobe, the more people that would like to see it the greater chance it will be realized.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3532781#3532781
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3531760#3531760

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File>Open to open your eps file
File>Export to export your image as a jpg.
In the export dialog box just below where you type in the filename is a file type, that is where you choose jpg.
What ever you do, do not delete the eps file. Should you ever need to access the original you will have have.
I recommend that instead of jpg you choose psd, tiff, or png and use jpg only for sharing. Jpg is a lossy format meaning each time you edit the file and save it, the quality of that file degrades. The formats I recommend are lossless formats, you can edit them all you want no data is being discarded unless you choose to do so.

Save 3d surface as vector eps file

Hello,
I tried to export a 3d surface to an eps file.
The generated eps file is attached below. As you can se the eps file is not a vector file. It looks like a normal picture. Zooming makes it unsharp.
The blockdiagram, which exports the 3d surface, is the following:
Exporting it over the context menu of the 3d surface generates the same result.
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Attachments:
graph_3d.eps.zip ‏77 KB

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it seems that LabVIEW is limitated in the ability to produce vector graphics, (afterall, LabVIEW is not a graphics software). I tried to open the exported .EMF and .EPS files with various programms, which can view vector graphics (EPS Viewer, EMF Viewer, XnView and Adobe Illustrator), but it never worked. It seems LabVIEW can't produce a complex vector graphic out of a 3D Plot. The limitation of LabVIEW is at 2D Plots and Waveforms like seen in the Knowledgebase.
"Creating Vector Graphics From LabVIEW Plots"
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/5E6AD23A0B70D7158625731E0050A043?OpenDocument
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I'm on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
I am making DVD covers for print. The barcodes for the DVD covers have to be done in Illustrator. But the original designs are done in photoshop including the text. For years this hasn't been a problem. Right before adding the barcodes I create an EPS file from photoshop, open that file in Illustrator and all my text is automatically coverted to perfect crisp clean vectors, viola! I add the barcodes and export the PDF for the printers.
But now I can't open my EPS files in Illustrator CS5 even though I'm exporting them the same way I always have from Photoshop CS5. Illustrator says... "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error." --> Note it does not give an error number after this warning like I see it does for so many other people.
I have been trying to fix this for over 10 HOURS spanning 2 days! I'm infuriated I can't get help from Adobe on this and have read all the forums and don't see my problem listed anywhere.
I've tried:
- Deleting the .plist file and the Settings folder & resetting my permissions
- Uninstalling and Reinstalling Illustrator
- Turning off all other applications
- Creating more disk space on my hard drive (even though I have 200gb available)
- Restarting the computer
- Disabling my Font book and still I can't open the EPS file
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If anyone can provide any solutions I would be so grateful! I'm at my wits end here, this should have taken under an hour to do and now it's ruining my entire weekend. I'm completely panicked because I was suppose to have these to my client over the weekend so they could turn them in for Print frist thing on Monday morning and of course Adobe provides no chat support or phone support after 7pm on weekday or on the weekend which is when this all started.

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After 12 HOURS of trying different things I found a WORK AROUND...
I had to:
- Select the Text in Photoshop (with Fontesque OT enabled) --> Select Create Work Path --> Covert to Shape on each of the text items
- Save EPS file out of Photoshop
- Disable Fontesque OT font in Font Book
- Then open EPS in Illustrator add in my Barcodes and export the PDF
(the barcodes have to be added in Illustrator because they need to be pure 100% black with no CMYK color in them. You can't save them out of Photoshop that way, only Illustrator, otherwise I would have made my pdf straight out of photoshop like any other normal human
This work around is the only way I could get the EPS files to open in Illustrator and still have the text remain super crisp like a vector.
NOTE to others in the future about crisp text from Photoshop to Illustrator:
- Simply "converting to shape" did not preserve the vector. You have to Select Create Work Path --> then Covert to Shape on each of the text items (with the font enabled) for this to work and preserve the crispness of the text. Even creating "smart object" did not truly preserve my vectors or the text crispness in the EPS file once I imported it into Illustrator.
DrStrik9 thank you SO MUCH for trying to help me. You did give me ideas that helped me figure out the workaround and also helped me feel not so alone as I struggled through this. I'm going to follow up with your other suggestions about reinstalling photoshop and also checking my RAM, etc. But I just want to that you so so so SOOOO much for all your time and consideration in this matter. I hope you have a wonderful amazing week ahead and that someone does something very nice and thoughtful for you too

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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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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 !

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If you are still having trouble, please post here again so that we can provide additional assistance.
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