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Re: EPS File Problem...

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From: Odysseus
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:07
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Michael DellaPietra wrote:
> 
> Can someone please explain to me what the problem with this EPS file is?
> 
> I put this in notepad and changed the file extension to EPS and tried opening it up in Photoshop, but I just keep generating an error...
> 
What was the file extension before you changed it?

The PS code is missing all of its procedure definitions; it looks
rather like an Adobe Illustrator .AI file, v6 or earlier (except that
Adobe would supply the application name in the "Creator" comment), in
that it relies on an external "header", "prolog" (note that there's
nothing between the "BeginProlog" and "EndProlog" comments), or
"prep" file.

You could try renaming it with an .AI to see if Photoshop or
Illustrator will recognize the 'shorthand', but it appears that the
best result you can expect will be incomplete; even if you were to
reconstruct the prolog by assuming "m" means "moveto", "l" "lineto",
"c" "curveto", "f" "fill", and so on, there would still be a problem
in that the script seems to end prematurely, leaving six numbers on
the operand stack and an unfinished, unpainted path on the graphics stack.

--Odysseus
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