Question about EPS file

[dfontana]

When I create my eps file and brign it to the printer, all
they see is the header inforamtion and a statement that
the file will print fine but no preview is stored in the
file so he can't see the layout. I also tried it on my XP
machine using Corel Photo house. It displays name of the
eps file, version of pscript.dll and states it will print
fine but no preview is stored in file and hence can't be
view in the application. Am I doing something wrong? I
didn't see any option in the print dialog to save preview
in the eps file.

 

[mact]

And eps file (Encapsulated PostScript) is nothing but a computer program
that requires an interpreter in the printer or application to render the
picture described in the program.

Most apps don't have this, but PostScript enabled printers do (and only
PostScript printers...usually an inkjet or low cost laser does not have
PostScript).

So in order for you or anyone to see an eps file, a bitmapped rendition of
the data contained in the eps must be appended to the eps data itself. This
is done by the process of creating the eps. While there are ways to adding a
preview after the fact, it is more hassle than it is worth.

Note that the preview, as it is called, is not usually spot-on accurate as
regards exact size, etc. compared to the actual rendered data.

So if your procedure for making an eps has an option to include preview,
then this option must be turned on. If there is no such option, and a
preview is not being created, then you are stuck.

If you have the full Acrobat package, including Distiller, you can distill
the non-preview eps and then open it in Acrobat and save it as an eps with
preview.

 

[Scott]

I would hazard a guess that your printer is mac-based. While eps files are
usually cross-platform capable, mac and windows preview files are different.
(For example, an illustrator mac preview is "8-bit macintosh" while for
windows it is a tiff) If you indeed have distiller, the pdf you create will
have an preview usuable on either platform.

 

[mact]

<<, mac and windows preview files are different.
(For example, an illustrator mac preview >>

depends on the settings. Win can have a wmf preview (sometimes an excellent
idea when printing to a PCL printer since wmf can be a vector format) but
which is as incomprehensible to a mac as pict is to a pc. use of tiff on
both platforms seems more common now than it was 5-6 years ago