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I have some EPS files that include some text (I know that because I can open the files with BBEdit and read the contents).

The problem I'm having is getting that text into a variable. I tried this:

function getBLfmEPS(link) { 
	var myFile = File(link.filePath); 
	myFile.encoding = "BINARY"; 
	myFile.open("r"); 
	var EPStext = myFile.read(); 
	myFile.close(); 
	var EPSheight = Number(EPStext.split("%%BoundingBox: ")[1].split("\n")[0].split(" ")[3]); 
	alert(EPSheight); 
}

and I'm not getting as far as the alert because the text is just not making it into the EPStext variable. It seems to stumble on the binary header at the front of the file.

I tried changing to open for edit and then using seek to try to get past the binary stuff, but that just gives me an empty string.

Does anyone have a way to do this?

Dave