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Apparently, I didn't delete enough garbage.

OK, that might be a clue! My message got cut off.

Thanks Shane.

There's something truly weird going on. I wrote this:

var myFile = File.openDialog("Pick an eps file");
if (myFile == null) { exit() }
myFile.open("r");
myText = myFile.read();
myFile.close();
alert(myText);

and all I got was this:

// Well, you get the idea from the two previous messages

So, then I tried your suggestion and put 24 into the read command as a limit on the number of characters. The result was the same.

So it occurred to me to check to see how long myText was. It said 24 -- hello! Maybe the problem isn't reading the data but writing it back out in an alert.

So, I changed it to 48. Same thing (only this time it said the length was 48).

So, I tried slicing the string after reading it:

var myFile = File.openDialog("Pick an eps file");
if (myFile == null) { exit() }
myFile.open("r");
myText = myFile.read();
myFile.close();
alert(myText.slice(8));

and blow me, there was the text.

So, I tried changing the slice value to zero instead of 8 -- this is tantamount to telling slice() to give me back the same string I gave it.

Result: the whole string.

So, as a final test, I took out the slice command, taking me right back to where I started, and now the bloody script works on any EPS file.

I already have a headache, but now it's getting worse. Apparently, my JavaScript engine had gotten itself into a state where it couldn't read these files but now it is out of the state. What did I do to fix it? Don't ask me.

How do I know if my script will work for the client? Don't ask me that either.

Grrrr.

But thanks again.

Dave