Need a Bigger Hammer for bad .eps graphic

Question

I should be asking this in the Sign Maker Plus forum or something  , but alas this is my familar place.
A peer has asked me to look at a bad eps, originally submitted via email uncompressed, I deemed it corrupted by email transfer; happens all the time.
Having received a replacement via email in a compressed folder, and uncompressed locally, it behaves as -
InDesign will place the graphic showing a very low res preview in Normal Preview; Overprint Preview shows the Gray Frame similair to Display Performance > Fast and upon export to pdf returns the message "Failed to Export an EPS Item on page 1. View additional errors?"
Illustrator CS4 upon attempting to open yields the message "The operation cannot be completed due to an unknown error"
Photoshop CS4 upon attempting to open yields the message "Photoshop could not complete your request because Photoshop was unable to parse the Postscript"
Distiller using any preset (I actually only tested 5) happily produces an empty page, lettersize. Interestingly the last status message, never a log for failed job, notes that "This document passes PDF/X-1a compliance checks"
The obvious is get a new file...we're talking about people who needed help with compressing a file here...
Any other hammers out there which might parse this unknown created by .eps?
I suppose I could suggest a pixel based format...
Hosted zip at Acrobat.com
https://acrobat.com/#d=sJu*5CDTk4H3UI*srT-9bg

Answer 1

Interesting. It *appears* to be a perfectly valid EPS, but it might be a bit bigger than Illy, Photoshop, or InDesign can handle:
|19040 - 21231| = 2191 pt ~ 30.43 in ~ 77.3 cm wide
|-446 - 1018| = 1464 pt ~ 20.3 in ~ 51.6 cm high
Perhaps that's the problem.
Or perhaps it's not -- setting the Distiller to a default page size of 3,000 x 3,000 points resulted in a much larger, yet still blank page.