Opening pictures in Preview 2.1 hangs

I'm trying to open eps files in Preview 2.1 and the application seems to be hanging in the "converting to pdf" stage, i.e. before it opens the picture. This is also happening with Graphic Converter. It sounds like something is wrong with the OS. Any ideas where the problem is?
Thanks,
Sue Lange

littleshoulders,
If you were here right now, we'd be hugging each other. I just solved the problem and we would neither have of us figured it out any other way other than sheer, unbelievable luck.
Tossing out the .plist thing did nothing. I also created a new user in which to try preview (a hint from a different post). That did nothing as well.
Old eps, new eps, none of them worked. What changed? I'll tell you. I spent about ten hours last week troubleshooting my LaTex installation. It was one of those sessions where you grasp at anything to try and figure out what's wrong. At one point I put a font file, fmex.pfb in the highest fonts folder. That didn't fix my LaTex problem so I moved on trying the next inane idea and forgot all about that stinking weird-*** font. Today when you had me check the other file fomats I realized it was a postscript conversion, i.e. OS native processing problem, and it was probably caused by one of the thousand weird things I tried last week with that ******** LaTex installation. Have you ever retraced 1000s of steps? I imagine you have and so know how much fun it is. Anyway it just so happens that out of the thousand things I tried, I remembered exactly two; one of which was that I put that stinking little weird-*** fmex.pfb font in the highest library folder and left it there to rot. Not only did it rot but it took the os postscript converter with it. It has now been removed to a better place where it can rot in **** for all I care because preview works again. I guess everything does boil down to font problems.
Hang in and hugs from across the miles.
Sue

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