Importing Illustrator eps files.

When I import Illustrator6 eps files into InDesign the graphics look incomplete, like they need to be re linked. Why is this happening and how to fix?

Does it look incomplete on screen, in a printout or both? If you are viewing at View>Display Performance>Typical Display, try High Quality Display. That won't change what prints, but Typical is just showing you a low-resolution preview that is good enough for most placement needs, but not the best. It's really a trade-off between how good the image looks on screen, and how fast the screen can adjust to movement, so if you're scrolling/zooming/moving the image, it will go faster with Typical than with High.

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Hello Chris,
Thanks so much for clarifying about OSX 10.6 opening .eps files in illustrator or photoshop.
I was wondering if you knew out how
to create a droplet that opens multiple PDFs and saves as .gifs.
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:48:11 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: OSX 10.6 does not differentiate between PS or illustrator .eps files
Given EPS files are "really" Illustrator files (Photoshop not being a
vector application), you probably want to make Illustrator the default.
No.
EPS files can be produced and read by many applications.
And most EPS files cannot be read by Illustrator.
Frequently EPS files in particular need to be edited in the application which created them (Freehand vs. AI vs. Quark gradients anyone?).
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