IndesignCS5 "edit original" button launches preview to open native Illustrator EPS

Help! I can't believe CS5 does this. Is there a fix besides using the 'Edit with" submenu?
Thanks

Right click any EPS file and choose get info. From there you can choose the program you want to open files.
Beware the use of EPS. You can only have one program as the default choice and I've found that many people hanging onto to EPS are also using it from Photoshop.
While I'll use an EPS if it's client supplied logo, the moment I have to open the file to do anything with it, it gets resaved in modern format.
Rules of thumb: In Photoshop save as PSD unless the file contains text or vector data. In that case save as PDF (you can change the extension to PDP and the operating system will know to use Photoshop for editing)
From Illustrator: AI or PDF. Makes no difference really since placing AI files actually use the PDF portion of the file.
Bob

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This forum is actually about the Cloud, not about using individual programs
Once your program downloads and installs with no errors, you need the program forum
If you start at the Forums Index http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says ALL FORUMS) to open the drop down list and scroll
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I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and a new imac. Could someone tell me where the preference is to have a file open in its original file format. Right now my illustrator eps are opening in preview.

I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and a new Imac. Could someone tell me where the preference is to change file to open in original program instead of preview?

Right-click on one of the files and choose 'get info'. in the info box. Change the 'open with' setting to your correct application. Check the 'always open with' option before OK-ing the change, then click the 'change all' button before closing the info window.
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When I launch preview, it opens all the previous pictures unless I have "closed" their window before quitting.

Hey everyone,
I was hoping someone could help me... it appears that in OSX 10.7 (Lion), whenever I open Preview to see an image, I noticed that the last image I had opened, also opened. This happens CONSITENTLY. I figured out that this little "bug" seems to occur whenever I haven't specificly closed (Ctrl + w) a picture before quitting (ctrl + q). So, if I only quit Preview... the next time I launch it every picture that I haven't closed just pops right back up.
This makes no sense to me. If somebody quits Preview to stop viewing a picture, they are obviously intentionally finished looking at it. I could understand wanting a browser to restore a session, but a session of Preview? Silly!
My question... is there a preferance or anything that I can turn off so that when I quit, it doesn't relaunch those pics? I looked around and couldn't find anything... so any help would be appreciated.
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That's not just Preview, ie also Safari is doing the same.
From here:
Now apps you close will reopen right where you left off, so you never have to start from scratch again. And when you install software updates, you no longer need to save your work, close your apps, and spend valuable time setting everything up again. With Resume, you can restart your Mac and return to what you were doing — with all your apps in the places where you left them.
It's not a bug, it's a feature
You can change it in for the whole system:
System Preferences > General > "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps"

Stinkin' "PREVIEW" app opening all my EPS & PDF files–HELP

All of my EPS and PDF documents are now defaulting to open in PREVIEW. Anyway to assign them to open in Acrobat and Illustrator as they used to? I am aware of the manual way to do it it's just inconvenient. Any input is appreciated. Thanks

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Edit Original...Smoked by PS CS4 Trial Uninstall

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or knows a fix other than re-install of CS3.
Owning CS3 Design Premium, but being a regular follower of the Photoshop U2U forum, I needed to see for myself whether Photoshop CS4 would run on my system, so logically, I installed the free trial. FWIW, with a display driver update, PS CS4 ran nicely, but regardless, I'm not in a position to purchase the suite upgrade at this time. The trial's run out, and I uninstalled it this morning. While the PS CS4 trial was active, ID CS3's Edit Original command launched or switched to it, rather than PS CS3. I didn't fuss much about that, welcoming the CS4-familiarizing exercise. But now, with it uninstalled, ID's Edit Original is disabled...doesn't even show on the context, (rt-click), menu, and Links panel button is dead.
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When you uninstalled it removed the file associations from Windows, which is what tells ID where to send the file for editing.
Open Explorer, Click the view menu, then Folder Options > File Types tab. If the file type (extension) is still in the list, click on it, then click the Change button below to set a new program (Photoshop) to open it. Repeat for all the types you want Photoshop to open.
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I am running InDesign v 3.0 and Photoshop CS5 on a new Mac Pro. When I use the Links pallet, after having selected a linked image with the black arrow, and choose "Edit Original", the image file will open in Apple Preview, rather than in Photoshop CS5. How do I specify it to open in PSCS5? Also, the "Update Link" menu is always greyed out so I cannot select it. Thanks!

In the Finder, select the image type you want to open in Photoshop (TIFF, JPEG, etc.). Choose File > Info. In the Open With section, choose Photoshop CS5 from the list of applications. Click Change All.

Edit original, specify photoshop

How can I specify which program I'd like to use when clicking the "Edit Original" button?

Actually I overlooked this and use it myself sometimes.
From the link flyout select reveal in Bridge and then right or control click on the highlighted image icon and select open with and choose what application you wish since it is a linked file when you return ti Illustrator it will either update automatically or ask you if you wish to update it.
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Open with command - EPS file confusion.

I recieved a folder of Illustrator vector eps files that seemed to want to open in Photoshop by default. I changed all in Finder to 'open with' Illustrator CS.
Now my Photoshop files try to open in Illustrator too. So I change all to open in Photoshop and am back to square one with vectors opening there by default too.
Is there a way to set Illustrator EPS to open in Illustrator and Photoshop EPS to open in Photoshop? I know I can just drag them onto the relevant icon but if I double click a Photoshop EPS I have to force out of Illustrator to stop it opening.
Who's bright idea it was to give two distinctly different file formats the same extension anyway?

I think the underlying cause of the problem is the change Apple has made in how Launch Services is identifying these files in Tiger.
An Illustrator EPS file has a creator code of 'ART5', a file type of 'EPSF', and a filename extension of ".eps". A Photoshop EPS file has a creator code of '8BIM', a file type of 'EPSF' (same as an Illy EPS), and a filename extension of ".eps" (again, same as an Illy EPS).
Prior to OS X 10.4, Launch Services would consider an Illustrator EPS file to be different from a Photoshop EPS file because of the different creator codes on the file. (While we know that they are "different" based on the type of data they contain (i.e. vector vs. raster), Launch Services doesn't really know anything about the content of the files; it only looks at the file properties to make its decisions). Since they were different, you could choose to have one open in Illustrator and the other open in Photoshop. So, just by default, Photoshop EPS files would open in Photoshop and Illustrator EPS files would open in Illustrator.
In OS X 10.4, Apple changed some things around. Prior to 10.4, a combination of a file's creator code, file type, and filename extension were mapped to a particular application that would open it. In 10.4, the file's creator code, file type, and filename extension aren't mapped directly to an application, but to an intermediary called a "Uniform Type Identifier" (UTI). It's the UTI then that is mapped to an application that will open it. The UTI for an EPS file is the string "com.adobe.encapsulated- postscript". Launch Services doesn't really distinguish between an Illustrator "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript" file or a Photoshop "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript" file. So, what happens is that both an Illustrator EPS file (creator code 'ART5', file type 'EPSF', filename extension ".eps") and a Photoshop EPS file (creator code '8BIM', file type 'EPSF', filename extension ".eps") are mapped to the same UTI type, "com.adobe.encapsulated- postscript", which itself can be globally mapped to only one application. In other words, globally either Illustrator or Photoshop, but not both.
While not ideal, files do support a per-file preference setting. So if you have a global setting to open eps files in Illustrator then by default double-clicking on will, well, open them in Illustrator. If you have a Photoshop EPS file and would like to open it in Photoshop, you could use the Get Info window to choose Photoshop instead -- just don't click the Change All button. That file, from then on, should always open in Photoshop when you double click on it. (That "user override" preference is saved in the resource fork of the file so it should stay with it).
The switch to UTIs has helped simplify things quite a bit, such as this example with the different types of PDF files. Prior to OS X 10.4, you'd have to repeat the custom "Open With" preference for each type of PDF, which was confusing for most users.
Technically, both Illustrator EPS files and Photoshop EPS files contain the same type of information: Encapsulated PostScript; the fact that Adobe provides two applications, one to edit image-based EPS files, and a second to edit vector-based EPS files is somewhat beside the point. While you could send feedback to Apple about this, I think it's probably up to Adobe to figure something out. They could quite easily define Illustrator EPS and Photoshop EPS files as subclasses of "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript". For example, vector-based Illustrator EPS files might be "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript.vector" that conform to "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript", while raster-based Photoshop EPS files might be "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript.raster" that conform to "com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript". Since there'd be two distinct types, they could each be mapped to their own application.
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"Edit original" for JPEG opens Preview, not Photoshop?

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Oh, I see. I was hoping there might be a separate function for ID because I generally like to open JPEGs quickly in Preview. I guess I'll just stick with the contextual menu and scroll to Photoshop. Not a big deal.
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How can I get 'Edit Original' to open file in Photoshop?

I have a Mac running OSX 10.6.2. I have the full CS4 Suite.
When I try clicking 'Edit Original' in Illustrator it opens the file in Apple's pdf viewer: 'Preview'. How can I change it to open in Photoshop by default?
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Thanks SeniorSSS
It works!
Is it me or is that a really off-the-wall solution for Apple to take?:
If you want to change the way a programme functions, choose a completely unrelated file and use it to instruct all other files of the same type. I would never have thought of that solution in a million years. Perhaps I don't think outside the box ...
Anyway, much appreciated all the same
Cheers

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Hi Steve
Finally solved the issue. It was down to InDesign. I had to completely uninstall InDesign and its preferences, then reinstall from disc. The installation had errors so after a restart and reinstallation, downloading updates etc. it now works!! Not sure what is was actually down to though.

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