New EPS format

Has Adobe made any changes to the EPS file format in Photoshop 7? We've been sent an EPS file which 5.5 or Paintshop Pro 7 is unable to open but a colleagues copy of Photoshop 7 can open.

Thanks, Rob.

Has Adobe made any changes to the EPS file format in Photoshop 7? We've been
sent an EPS file which 5.5 or Paintshop Pro 7 is unable to open but a colleagues copy of Photoshop 7 can open.

What kind of EPS is it? What program created it? (You can find this out by opening the EPS in a text editor and looking at the headers.)

Photoshop 5.5 can't open EPS files from, say, Illustrator 10. Neither Photoshop
5.5 nor Photoshop 7 can open *all* EPS files--for example, Photoshop 5.5
sometimes chokes on recent Quark EPS files, in part because Quark produces crappy PostScript--but Photoshop 7 is more likely than Photoshop 5.5 to be able to parse EPS files from other, recent apps.

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(Tacit) wrote:

Has Adobe made any changes to the EPS file format in Photoshop 7? We've been
sent an EPS file which 5.5 or Paintshop Pro 7 is unable to open but a colleagues copy of Photoshop 7 can open.

What kind of EPS is it? What program created it? (You can find this out by opening the EPS in a text editor and looking at the headers.)
Photoshop 5.5 can't open EPS files from, say, Illustrator 10. Neither Photoshop
5.5 nor Photoshop 7 can open *all* EPS files--for example, Photoshop 5.5 sometimes chokes on recent Quark EPS files, in part because Quark produces crappy PostScript--but Photoshop 7 is more likely than Photoshop 5.5 to be able
to parse EPS files from other, recent apps.

One glitch I ran into recently is that Photoshop EPS duotones (in this particular case the files were monotones) using colour palettes not available in an earlier version (here v5.5) won't open. But the error message for this situation is quite explicit, and I was able to fix the files in v8 with no problem.

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Photoshop 5.5 can't open EPS files from, say, Illustrator 10. Neither

Photoshop

5.5 nor Photoshop 7 can open *all* EPS files--for example, Photoshop 5.5

Just checked the header - it was created in Illustrator 10...

Is there a way that the author of the graphic can save it from Illustrator in an older version of the file?

Thanks, Rob.

"Rob Nicholson" writes:

Photoshop 5.5 can't open EPS files from, say, Illustrator 10. Neither

Photoshop

5.5 nor Photoshop 7 can open *all* EPS files--for example, Photoshop 5.5

Just checked the header - it was created in Illustrator 10...
Is there a way that the author of the graphic can save it from Illustrator in an older version of the file?

Absolutely. In "Save As", a dialog window pops up where you can set this, along with PostScript level, previews to be saved (or none), etc.

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