.eps in photoshop

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kenneth lee
Mar 13, 2006
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My old photoshop 5 won’t save as an .eps file. Do later versions have this capability?
Anyone Know of a way of getting around this cheaply?
Ken


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edjh
Mar 13, 2006
kenneth lee wrote:
My old photoshop 5 won’t save as an .eps file. Do later versions have this capability?
Anyone Know of a way of getting around this cheaply?
Ken
If memory serves, PS 5 did allow saving as eps. Try flattening the file first.


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DP_Pro
Mar 13, 2006
Photoshop 5 does save as EPS. If the export filter is missing, I guess it wouldn’t work. It would be helpful to know which platform you are using. There are ways to make Photoshop save as an EPS even if you don’t have the export filter.

As a matter of fact, there are ways to make EPS files with any program, but it depends on if you are running a Mac or a PC as to how you actually do this…
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DP_Pro
Mar 14, 2006
I understand that you have a Windows computer, and are trying to make an EPS file without the export plug in for Photoshop for making EPS files. First off, I would say to reinstall Photoshop, and then try again… assuming that you ‘lost’ your installer CDs and activation code.. there still is a way to make an EPS file. This isn’t a fullproof way, but might work for you.

An EPS file is actually a Postscript file Encapsulated inside a preview file. Hense the name, Encapsulated Postscript. On the Mac, there is a PICT file ‘wrapper’ around the postscript code. The reason the postscript is ‘wrapped’ inside an image file is simple. If it were just postscript, it would import into your graphic applications as text, and wouldn’t work well as an image. The Image file serves as a placeholder for the postscript code, and usuallyhas a low resolution version of the encapsulated graphic so you can tell what it is you are working with. So…. why all this explaination? Read on…

Since Postscript is a printer language it is easy to create just by installing a printer that understands the postscript language, and then printing your image to a postscript file. Where things get messy is making it encapsulated so that if you place it into a layout program, there will be an image to represent the placement of the graphic. In essence, you are creating pure postscript code. Not an EPS file.

I tested this method, and it works using Adobe CS2 Indesign.

First, you need to install a printer that has postscript — preferably one that has color too, since I assume you have a color image you are working with.. if not, this won’t hurt either.

–Go to add a printer, and at the Local or Network Printer selection turn off the Automatic detect and make sure the Local printer attached to this computer is selected.
–Click Next
–Under select a printer port, click on Use the following port, and in the dropdown list select ‘File (print to file)" Click next –You will end up with a list of printers — select Apple under the Manufacturer, and select Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600 under the printer selecter, and click Next..
–If you have installed this printer before, you will get an alert asking if you want to keep the existing driver or not… if you get this, just replace it. Click Next
–Leave the printer name unchanged, and make sure that you answer NO to the prompt to use the printer as a default printer. Click Next. –Enter NO to the prompt to share the printer. and Click Next –Enter NO to the prompt for a test page. Click Next
—Review your settings and click Finish.
You have now installed a printer that will print to a file on your hard drive. Now, one more thing you need to do…
–Open your printers and Faxes so that you can see the new printer and right click on the printer… select ‘Printing Preferences’… This will allow you to set the default printing properties for this printer. –Click on the Advanced tab and fold down the plus sign next to the PostScript Options.
–Locate the section for the PostScript Output Option, and click where it says Optimize for Speed.
–Click the drop down list, and select ‘Encapsulated Postscript’ –Click OK, Click OK, Now close the printers.
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You are done.
Now open Photoshop to the file you want to save, Select the printer (Laserwriter), format the page just as you normally would and then click Print.
— A dialog will pop up asking where you want to save the file — there is no help here, you can’t just browse to where you want the file to be. You actually have to type a path and file name to place the file somewhere you can find it. I would suggest, C:\filename.eps. It is important that you put the .eps on the end of the file name. If you have a temp directory on your C drive, as many people do — you could just type C:\temp\filename.eps
When you click the do it button, it will create the file where you tell it to. No confirmations, it will just print it to that location. Once the file has completed spooling and printing go there to find your .eps file.

Good Luck… Lee
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Tacit
Mar 14, 2006
In article <4414dc51$0$25197$>,
"kenneth lee" wrote:

My old photoshop 5 won’t save as an .eps file. Do later versions have this capability?

Your old Photoshop WILL save as an EPS file. All versions back to Version 1.0 will save as an EPS file.

You probably do not see EPS as an option because your file contains layers. Use the File->Save a Copy, not File->Save As, command. Save a Copy will automatically flatten the layers.


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Tacit
Mar 14, 2006
In article ,
"DP_Pro" wrote:

An EPS file is actually a Postscript file Encapsulated inside a preview file.

Close, but not quite correct; an EPS file can exist with no preview at all.

An EPS file is a PostScript file within a bounding box. It is "encapsulated" in the sense that it can live in another PostScript stream. EPS files can not contain any PostScript commands; they are limited to a subset of PostScript commands (for example, ShowPage and SetPageParams are not permitted in an EPS).


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edjh
Mar 14, 2006
tacit wrote:
In article <4414dc51$0$25197$>,
"kenneth lee" wrote:

My old photoshop 5 won’t save as an .eps file. Do later versions have this capability?

Your old Photoshop WILL save as an EPS file. All versions back to Version 1.0 will save as an EPS file.

You probably do not see EPS as an option because your file contains layers. Use the File->Save a Copy, not File->Save As, command. Save a Copy will automatically flatten the layers.
That save option may not exist in PS 5; I don’t remember. But flattening is most likely the solution.


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