Opening RGB illustrator eps in photoshop

When opening an illustrator eps in photoshop the RGB breakdown changes and doesn't match the original breakdown thats in illustrator. any ideas why?
Thanks
Chris

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Once your program downloads and installs with no errors, you need the program forum
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You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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vector application), you probably want to make Illustrator the default.
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