Opening EPS file in Photoshop 7.0, blacked out, can’t see vector cutouts

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Isa_Z
Feb 23, 2009
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this is a 10 year old eps file. we used it to make vinyl cutout stickers.

after opening in PS7, it’s just black squares, without all the cutouts in each square.

when opened in notepad, these are the 1st 2 lines…
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
%%Creator:ScanVec CASmate(TM) 1.20

been searching the forum for an hour, no luck yet.
thanks for any discussion on this.
peace
iz

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Bob Levine
Feb 23, 2009
Why are you opening it in Photoshop? Illustrator would be a better choice.

Bob
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Isa_Z
Feb 23, 2009
don’t have illustrator, never used it before.
IZ
Isa_Z
Feb 23, 2009
still googling, looks like i need AI. rats. don’t need this stuff vectorized for cutting out this time. i plan to export jpg’s for poster printing. so if i can at least open the file with the vectors visible, i could still work with and save as a psd. but to get those vectors, i gotta have AI? bummer. thanks
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Bob Levine
Feb 23, 2009
Email me the file and I’ll get it into a raster format for you. Click my name, go to my website and you’ll find contact info there.

Bob
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Isa_Z
Feb 24, 2009
turns out my artwork is black on black, that’s why i just see solid black squares. thanks rl. still need ai to clean up the ‘mess’.

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