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5 total messages Started by Michael DellaPietra Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:02

#930

Author: Michael DellaPietra
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:02

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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...

Please help!!!

Thanks,
Mike

Here's the file:
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%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: None
%Info: 128 548 2
%%Title: (15706P)
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 109 58
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0.6 0.3 109 57.7
%%DocumentProcessColors: Black
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%EndProlog
0 g
2 J
0 j
1 w
2 M
83.2583 54.8667 m
96.8583 54.8667 l
100.1583 51.2667 102.7583 46.9667 105.8583 43.0667 c
106.8583 43.2667 107.5583 44.0667 108.5583 44.2667 c
109.0583 43.7667 109.0583 42.7667 108.1583 42.6667 c
107.8583 42.3667 107.2583 42.1667 106.8583 41.7667 c
107.0583 40.8667 107.9583 40.5667 107.9583 39.7667 c
106.5583 38.7667 105.3583 37.8667 104.0583 36.6667 c
102.9583 36.8667 102.4583 40.2667 100.8583 38.1667 c
100.4583 38.2667 100.2583 38.7667 100.0583 39.1667 c
100.3583 39.5667 101.7583 39.9667 100.8583 40.8667 c
98.4583 43.9667 96.8583 47.0667 94.3583 49.9667 c
89.5583 49.1667 83.6583 51.1667 79.7583 48.2667 c
56.5583 48.2667 l
52.0583 50.2667 l
50.0583 49.6667 46.6583 51.7667 46.9583 48.4667 c
46.9583 48.3667 l
46.0583 48.0667 45.1583 48.4667 44.2583 48.4667 c
44.5583 49.0667 44.3583 49.6667 44.0583 50.1667 c
30.5583 50.0667 l
29.7583 47.4667 30.5583 45.6667 30.2583 43.0667 c
32.5583 36.6667 31.5583 28.3667 31.1583 21.2667 c
30.1583 15.7667 30.1583 10.0667 29.3583 4.3667 c
30.3583 3.8667 31.6583 3.6667 32.6583 3.6667 c
32.4583 2.2667 l
31.2583 2.2667 30.2583 2.8667 29.0583 2.5667 c
29.1583 1.8667 28.9583 1.0667 28.8583 0.3667 c
27.1583 0.6667 25.2583 0.6667 23.6583 1.3667 c
23.3583 2.1667 24.3583 3.0667 23.3583 3.6667 c
22.7583 3.5667 21.6583 3.4667 22.0583 4.4667 c
21.7583 5.1667 22.6583 4.7667 22.8583 5.0667 c
23.1583 5.1667 23.4583 4.9667 23.6583 4.8667 c
24.4583 5.6667 24.1583 6.9667 24.4583 8.0667 c
25.5583 13.7667 25.4583 20.6667 26.8583 26.1667 c
26.0583 30.9667 27.4583 35.6667 25.6583 40.2667 c
24.8583 43.3667 25.5583 46.9667 25.0583 49.9667 c
22.6583 50.1667 19.9583 50.2667 18.2583 48.4667 c
17.0583 45.3667 l
10.1583 23.8667 l
9.3583 21.6667 8.7583 19.3667 7.8583 17.1667 c
8.5583 16.4667 10.5583 16.3667 9.2583 14.8667 c
7.4583 15.4667 l
6.8583 15.0667 7.1583 14.2667 6.7583 13.8667 c
5.0583 14.0667 3.5583 15.0667 1.8583 15.3667 c
1.8583 16.4667 l
2.1583 16.5667 2.2583 17.1667 2.2583 17.4667 c
1.8583 17.9667 1.1583 18.1667 0.6583 18.4667 c
1.1583 18.7667 0.8583 20.2667 1.8583 19.5667 c
2.2583 19.2667 3.0583 18.9667 3.0583 19.8667 c
2.8583 20.3667 3.7583 20.5667 3.2583 21.0667 c
4.0583 21.9667 4.3583 23.3667 4.4583 24.4667 c
5.0583 25.5667 5.6583 26.9667 5.6583 28.2667 c
6.4583 28.9667 6.4583 30.2667 7.0583 31.0667 c
9.2583 37.9667 11.5583 44.5667 13.8583 51.6667 c
17.2583 58.9667 26.2583 55.0667 32.8583 55.9667 c
52.8583 55.9667 l
56.6583 57.4667 l
78.5583 57.6667 l
80.6583 58.0667 81.7583 55.8667 83.2583 54.8667 c
f
1 g
82.3583 53.7667 m
82.0583 52.8667 82.1583 51.9667 82.1583 50.7667 c
79.2583 49.3667 l
57.0583 49.3667 l
53.3583 51.1667 l
53.1583 52.1667 53.2583 53.6667 53.2583 54.7667 c
56.5583 56.2667 l
64.4583 56.2667 72.6583 56.2667 79.7583 56.2667 c
f
31.7583 54.6667 m
51.7583 54.6667 l
51.8583 51.6667 l
49.6583 51.2667 47.4583 51.2667 45.1583 51.6667 c
40.1583 51.2667 34.3583 51.3667 29.5583 51.4667 c
28.3583 52.3667 27.0583 52.0667 25.7583 51.6667 c
25.4583 51.2667 l
22.0583 51.4667 18.6583 51.2667 16.7583 48.4667 c
14.7583 41.6667 13.0583 36.2667 10.7583 29.5667 c
10.8583 29.4667 l
10.7583 28.8667 10.0583 28.4667 10.1583 27.7667 c
9.4583 25.0667 8.5583 23.2667 7.7583 20.2667 c
7.6583 20.2667 7.4583 20.3667 7.3583 20.1667 c
7.8583 19.4667 7.0583 18.5667 6.7583 17.7667 c
5.9583 17.6667 4.9583 18.5667 4.0583 18.7667 c
7.6583 29.4667 11.2583 40.4667 15.1583 51.2667 c
18.1583 57.4667 25.6583 53.8667 31.2583 54.

Re: EPS File Problem...

#931

Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:53

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>Can someone please explain to me what the problem with this EPS file is?

It is not valid. It contains a whole lot of things that are not in the
PostScript language. It seems to be missing a header.

It may have been created for use with Adobe Illustrator, some versions
of which can open a file like this. It is not a valid EPS.  

Photoshop is a poor tool for testing EPS files. It can't open every
EPS. Distiller is a better tool.

Aandi Inston

Re: EPS File Problem...

#932

Author: 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

Re: EPS File Problem...

#935

Author: Gunnar Fing Blodgett
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:29

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Hello, and Aandi is fundamentally correct. As an additional note, Distiller probably won't handle this EPS file either; the various operators (g, m, l, v) are shortened forms of PostScript operators (setgray, moveto, lineto, curveto).

As Aandi has pointed out, without a parser to associate the g with the setgray, Distiller will not recognize the intent. Illustrator, again as Aandi has pointed out, will often accep the shortened operators without a parser because it has built-in dictionaries.

Re: EPS File Problem...

#939

Author: Michael DellaPietra
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:32

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Ok, well I guess will have to figure out what those mean...

Thanks very much for the both of your help!

-Mike

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